About MPATEL Speed Test

Internet Speed Test

The internet speed test downloads from and uploads to Cloudflare’s nearest speed test server, and the result names that server, for example “Cloudflare, New Delhi (DEL)”. It first times about 20 small HTTPS requests with the line quiet, then tests parallel connections, adding one every half second up to the chosen mode’s limit (two or four). A flat reading does not stop this warm-up early. The result averages throughput after the last connection warms up; a stable result uses the final three steady seconds. Short, data-capped tests use a shorter window and are labelled as limited. Ping is timed every 300 ms during both transfers to show latency under load.

Each size has a data cap: Data saver can use up to 37 MB, Standard up to 217 MB and Gigabit up to 876 MB. In our own run on a line of about 200 Mbps, Data saver used 35 MB and Standard 210 MB in about 14 seconds. Data saver stops at its cap before the speed settles on lines faster than about 60 Mbps download (25 Mbps upload), and Standard above about 200 Mbps. The result then shows as “at least” that speed, so fibre users should pick Gigabit. The optional second test on M-Lab runs only after you agree, because M-Lab publishes your IP address.

M-Lab speed test (the test in Google Search)

The M-Lab speed test page runs NDT7, the Measurement Lab test that also appears in Google Search. It asks M-Lab’s Locate service for a nearby server, then opens one encrypted WebSocket connection for download and one for upload, each for up to 10 seconds. Speed is all data moved divided by the time, which is how M-Lab counts it, and latency and TCP retransmissions come from the server’s own TCP statistics.

M-Lab publishes every result with your IP address as open data, so the test waits for you to tick the consent box each time. A full run moves whatever your line carries in up to 20 seconds; the Data saver run used 34.7 MB in our test. The optional Cloudflare run on the same page can use up to 37 MB more.

Broadband Speed Test

The broadband speed test uses the same Cloudflare test and the same data caps as the home page, then divides your result by the plan speed you type in to show the share of your plan you received. Latency and jitter are set next to TRAI’s fixed-broadband benchmarks as a guide only, because TRAI’s figures come from providers’ own measurements made another way.

Your plan, the time-of-day log and the complaint summary are kept in your browser. A test over Wi-Fi lowers the share of plan, so a low figure on Wi-Fi is not proof of a fault in the line.

Jio Speed Test

The Jio speed test page reads the network number (ASN) of your public address from Cloudflare and says whether it belongs to Reliance Jio (AS55836). A VPN, a private relay or an office network shows its own ASN instead, so the check can be wrong there. The speed test itself is the Cloudflare test described above, with the same caps.

The route trace does not start on your phone or router. It runs on a Globalping volunteer probe on Jio’s network, and the result prints that probe’s city, network and ASN. If no Jio probe is online, the page says so and uses a home or mobile connection elsewhere in India. The page is independent of Jio.

Airtel Speed Test

The Airtel speed test page tells Airtel’s mobile network (AS45609) apart from its home broadband network (AS24560) by the ASN Cloudflare reports for your address. After the Cloudflare speed test, you can trace a route from a Globalping probe on your own Airtel network, or on either of those two, with the probe named in the result.

Airtel runs its own speed test on its own servers, and the page links to it, so the two can show different numbers. When Globalping has no probe on the chosen Airtel network, the page falls back to another connection in India and tells you. The page is not made by Airtel.

WiFi Speed Test

The Wi-Fi speed test runs the Cloudflare test once per room and labels each run with the room name you type. A chart compares the rooms from the results stored in your browser. The test measures the whole path from your device to the internet, not the router alone.

A web page cannot see your Wi-Fi band, channel or signal strength, so the room name and the connection type you pick are what you tell it. To separate Wi-Fi from the line, the page suggests one run on a LAN cable.

5G and 4G Mobile Speed Test

The mobile speed test lets you choose a total cap of 10, 25 or 50 MB. About 70% of the cap goes to download and 30% to upload, over one or two connections for 3 to 8 seconds each way, and a live counter shows the megabytes used. The test stops at the cap, so a fast 5G line often shows “at least” a speed.

Your browser cannot tell 5G from 4G; Chrome reports “4g” for any fast connection. Check the network icon in your phone’s status bar while the test runs.

DNS Speed Test

The DNS speed test sends DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) lookups from your browser to each public resolver in turn, never two at once. After one warm-up lookup that is thrown away, each round asks one popular name that resolvers usually have stored and one random name under mpatel.org that none can have stored. A lookup with no answer within 3 seconds is a failure, and the ranking uses our own score: 60% of the cached median, 40% of the uncached median and a penalty for failures.

This is DoH from the browser, not the plain DNS on port 53 that your phone or router normally uses, so treat the winner as a strong hint. Some resolvers, such as AdGuard and NextDNS, refuse requests from web pages and cannot be tested; the page lists them with the reason. The whole benchmark used about 12 KB in our run.

DNS Lookup and DNS Trace

The DNS lookup asks two or three public resolvers you choose, over DoH, and shows their answers side by side with TTLs, the CNAME chain and whether the resolver validated DNSSEC. Answers from public resolvers can differ from those of your provider’s resolver.

The delegation trace, from the root servers down to the domain, runs on a Globalping probe named in the result, because a browser cannot send raw DNS queries. The country check asks probes in five countries. Globalping publishes its measurements, so the domain you check becomes public.

Ping Test

The ping test sends one small HTTPS request per second to each server you tick and draws the times on a live graph. The first request to each server opens the connection and is not counted, a request with no answer in 4 seconds counts as failed, and the test stops after 10 minutes. For Cloudflare the browser’s timing data lets us remove the server’s processing time; the other servers include a little overhead.

These are HTTP round-trip times, not ICMP ping, and a failed request is not the same as a lost packet. The optional real ping sends 16 ICMP packets from a Globalping probe on your own network, or from another connection in India when your network has no probe, and names that probe. One minute with five servers moved about 0.3 MB in our run.

Gaming Ping Test

The gaming ping test times Amazon Web Services data centres in 11 regions, from Mumbai and Hyderabad to Singapore, Europe and the USA, one region at a time. Each region gets a warm-up request and five timed requests to its public DynamoDB address; the board shows the median and the spread between the 25th and 75th percentile as jitter.

We time cloud regions, not game servers, and never connect to a game. The verdict (great under 50 ms, good under 80, fair under 120) uses our own thresholds, because the game publishers do not publish a required ping. A full run took 66 requests and well under 0.1 MB.

Bufferbloat Test

The bufferbloat test measures ping to Cloudflare three times: with the line quiet, while it downloads, and while it uploads, with a timing request every 300 ms during each load. The rise is the loaded median minus the quiet median, shown as a box plot.

The A to F grade is our own scale for the larger rise: A under 30 ms, B under 60, C under 150, D under 400, otherwise F. Data saver stops at 25 MB down and 10 MB up; Standard at 150 MB and 60 MB. A short load may not fill your router’s queue, so a good Data saver grade on fast fibre is less certain.

Video Call Test

The video call test starts your camera and microphone only when you press its button. The preview and the sound level meter run inside your browser; nothing is recorded or sent anywhere, and both turn off when you press Stop or leave the page.

The network part is the Data saver speed test (up to 25 MB down and 10 MB up) with ping timed during both transfers. The verdicts compare your numbers with the figures Zoom, Google and Microsoft publish for their apps. We do not connect to their servers, so a real call can still behave differently.

Traceroute Online

The online traceroute runs on a Globalping probe, a small volunteer-run server in the city or network you choose, and the result names its city, network and ASN. MTR is the default because it repeats each hop and reports the network that owns every router; plain traceroute is one pass. “From my ISP” asks for a probe on your own network and falls back to another home or mobile connection in India when none is online.

A reverse trace runs from a probe back to your IP address, which makes your address part of a public Globalping result. Network names for each hop come from RIPE NCC RIPEstat. If you paste the output of your own tracert or traceroute, the page reads it in your browser; only if you press Look up network owners does it send the public router addresses to RIPEstat for their network names.

What Is My IP Address?

The IP address page asks Cloudflare’s speed test server for your address, network and approximate location, and asks Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 and ipify separately for your IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. When one of them fails, our own server, RIPEstat or ipinfo.io fill the gap. Location from an IP address is approximate and often shows your provider’s nearest hub, not your town.

The CGNAT check compares the WAN address you copy from your router with your public address, entirely in your browser; an address in 100.64.0.0/10 means carrier-grade NAT. The WebRTC check contacts the STUN servers of Cloudflare and Google only when you press its button.

IPv6 Test

The IPv6 test asks two servers that only speak IPv4 (1.1.1.1 and api.ipify.org) and two that only speak IPv6 (2606:4700:4700::1111 and api6.ipify.org) which address they see, giving each 4 seconds. A server that speaks both, api64.ipify.org, shows which protocol your browser chose; the browser decides, not the page.

Round-trip times come from a warm-up and five timed HTTPS requests to each Cloudflare address. The readiness score is ours: 10 when IPv6 works and is preferred, 7 when it works but IPv4 is preferred, 3 when there is no IPv6. The test uses well under 100 KB.

Internet Stability Test

The internet stability test is the monitor this site grew from. While its tab is open it sends a tiny request every 3 seconds to Google and Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1, and every 30 seconds a round of small requests to a list of 27 well-known services, from Google and YouTube to WhatsApp and Amazon India. Drops, slow periods and failing services are logged with times, and you can export a report for your provider.

Samples are stored only in your browser’s IndexedDB: raw samples for 7 days, hourly summaries for a year. A sleeping computer or a browser that slows background tabs leaves gaps in the record. A request that fails is shown as a failed request, not as packet loss. Speed tests are off unless you switch them on, and each one then uses up to 37 MB.

How much internet speed do I need?

The speed calculator multiplies each activity in your home by the speed its app maker recommends, links that source on the row, adds the rows and then adds 25% headroom, which is our own choice. Rows with no official figure, such as gaming and big downloads, are marked as our estimate. The calculator makes no network requests.

Help and FAQs

The help page collects answers about speed, ping, DNS, traceroute and IP results, a glossary and an explanation of why different speed tests disagree. The good, fair and poor bands it shows are our own thresholds unless a source is named.

Your data

Results, settings and history stay in your browser, and there are no cookies, analytics or accounts. The privacy policy lists, test by test, which outside servers see your IP address and how to delete what the site stored on your device.