

Ping time is measured in milliseconds and refers to the round trip a signal makes to the host and back to the device. A Ping checks the host’s availability and also measures the response time. Ping is a signal that your device sends to the host over the internet to request a response. Latency is measured in milliseconds and depends upon your connection type, distances and network congestion.


In simple terms, Latency means the delay that occurs when information travels from point A to B.

Mbps is the unit employed to measure internet speed and depicts the number of bytes that travel to and from your device in one second. If you would like to take a look at how this test looks on both the desktop and mobile versions of the Spectrum website, check out the screenshots we took during and after testing.Internet speed refers to how fast data can travel from the World Wide Web to your device. These speeds were right in line with our expectations, and the results were pretty steady from test to test, so we believe the Spectrum test to be quite accurate. The average download speed registered at 149.0 Mbps, while the upload speeds were all recorded at the exact same speed of 6.0 Mbps. Considering that the vast majority of internet speed tests do analyze ping times, this was a disappointing discovery. However, one fairly major gripe we have with this test is the fact that it does not record ping or latency times. Getting down to the specifics, the Spectrum speed test took an average of 5.3 seconds to load and 35.5 seconds to run, which are typical times compared to most competitors. The Spectrum speed test also produced results in this range, and we were impressed with the general reliability and consistency. For these tests, we used a connection that advertises download speeds of up to 150 Mbps, and competing speed tests confirmed that we were indeed receiving speeds at or exceeding the advertised rates.
