How to Test a Cable Connection

A cable connection is a high speed broadband Internet connection. Cable Internet uses the same equipment and lines as your cable television service. As a result, cable connections are provided by cable television providers. The speed of a cable connection ranges from as low as 1 Mbps and as high as 100 Mbps for residential connections and 400 Mbps for businesses. A cable connection requires a cable modem to function, as the modem intercepts the data sent and received between your computer and the cable infrastructure.

Cable Connection Speed Test

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  Open your Internet browser and navigate to the DSLReports Web page.

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  Click "Speed Tests," then click "Flash 8 plugin based speed test."

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  Click the city in the Java applet that is geographically closest to you. The cable connection speed test will begin and your results will be provided upon completion.

Cable Connection Line Quality Testing

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  Open your Internet browser and navigate to the DSLReports Web site.

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  Click "Line Quality Testing."

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  Click "Join Queue." Once it is your turn, the line quality test will begin. The results indicating the quality of cable connection will be then provided to you.