Guides
Everything we know about internet speed, written for humans. No jargon required — and every guide ends one click away from testing your own connection.
What is a good internet speed?
The honest answer: far less than the ads suggest for one person — and more than you think for a busy household. Here are the real numbers.
10 practical ways to make your internet faster
In rough order of effort-to-payoff. Measure before and after each change — that is how you find the fix that matters on your line.
Why your Wi-Fi is slower than your plan
The most common speed problem is not your provider — it is the last ten meters. Here is why Wi-Fi eats your bandwidth and what actually fixes it.
Latency, ping and jitter, explained
Bandwidth is how much your connection can carry. Latency is how fast it responds. For everything interactive — clicks, calls, games — the second number is the one you feel.
Bufferbloat: the fast-internet lag problem
Someone starts a download and your video call falls apart — on a plan with plenty of Mbps. That is not a speed problem. It is a queue problem.
Fiber vs cable vs DSL (vs 5G home internet)
The technology that reaches your wall decides your ceiling — for speed, for upload, and for how the line behaves at 9 pm.
Starlink and satellite internet, honestly
Satellite went from "last resort" to "genuinely good" in a few short years — but the physics still sets rules that no marketing can repeal.
Mbps vs MB/s: the divide-by-8 rule
Your plan says 500, your download meter says 60. Nobody is cheating you — two industries simply measure with different units.