Internet 101: Worksheet I
Name Mendy Brewer
Date 10-29-14
Introduction: The Internet is a vast collection of billions of pages of information on every topic
imaginable. As you explore Web sites online, keep in mind that over six million Web pages a day change,
move, or are removed. Unlike a book, whose pages don't change after publishing, a Web site can change
continuously. The information you find today may not be there tomorrow!
I Step one: How do I determine the speed of my Internet connection?
ZOOM: How fast is your Internet? Check it out: http://www.speedtest.net/
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/
PING: 44ms
Download speed: 9.71 Mbps
Upload speed: 26.60 Mbps
Go to the following website and figure out the speed: PING, Download Speed, Upload Speed and record
them. Also, record your Bandwidth speed.
What is Download and Upload? What speed has to do with that?
How fast you can download and upload the files
What is Bandwidth?
Bandwidth is the range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal
Step 2: Chart it!! http://speedof.me/ Go to the following website note speed and see how the chart of
your speed in a graph looks like. After that you will graph the Speed with the numbers given.
Max download: 5.15 Mbps
Min download: 10 Kpbs
Max upload: 8.52 Mbps
Min upload: 290 Kpbs
Step 3: Now after all that you will check how the speed connection is to other states. In the following
website you will record speed in the 8 states listed. You have to record the Download and Upload Speed.
Make a table.
http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/
Upload
speed
Download
speed
Chicago
Seattle
41.12
mbps
9.92
mbps
6.35
mbps
3.14
mbps
San
Francisco
10.81
mbps
1.76 mbps
Los
Angeles
8.74
mbps
3.77
mbps
Dallas
Atlanta
20.54
mbps
4.33
mbps
23.98
mbps
6.04
mbps
New
York
37.66
mbps
9.16
mbps
Washington
16.88 mbps
17.14 mbps
Step four: In the following website you will record your Broadband speed (in Mb/s), IP address, Host.
Also, you will answer the questions: What is Broadband speed?, What is an IP address? What is a HOST?
What does Mb/s stands for?
Broadband Speed:
Download speed: 1.195 mb/s
Upload speed: 0.731 mb/s
Broadband speed- Broadband speed is the rate that information is sent (upload speed) or received
(download speed) on your broadband line
IP address- a unique string of numbers separated by periods that identifies each computer using
the Internet Protocol to communicate over a network
HOST- A network host is a computer or other device connected to a computer network
Mb/s- megabits per second
http://www.broadbandspeedtest.co.uk/
Step five: Testing a web site: Stopwatch: In the following website you would measure the speed of 10
websites and record them here. Would you like to know how long it takes to load a webpage? This
program will measure the time for you. Enter the URL to be measured and watch the top of the window.
http://www.numion.com/Stopwatch/index.html
Google- 00:00:00.501
Twitter- 00:00:00.158
Tumblr- 00:00:05.000
Yahoo- 00:00:00.578
Microsoft- 00:00:03.461
Bing- 00:00:00.823
Youtube- 00:00:00.205
Tetris Friends- 00:00:10.309
Gmail- 00:00:00.655
At&t- 00:00:02.363
Step six: How far is it…. Speed reduction by distance: Servers far away are slower than servers nearby.
Why is that? And how big is the effect? This calculator shows how much your speed is reduced because
of distance. Note Parameters section and Results table here. Look at the explanation section on the
page.
Because there are servers in different places to bring information to different places so the network can
be large.
Parameters:
Connection speed:
56000
Distance (round-trip):
40000
Block size:
1500
Results:
bits per second
kilometers
bytes
Throughput:
34511
Latency (round trip):
133
bits per second
milliseconds
http://www.numion.com/Calculators/Distance.html