(Andreas Kermann/iStockphoto) The U.S. entered 2016 with an estimated population of 322,762,018 according to an end-of-year estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau, meaning that we added more than 2.4 million people to the population over the course of the year.
Almost every speed test site tests for download speed, upload speed, and the ping rate. The upload rate is always lower than the download rate. This is a configuration set by the local cable carrier â it is not dependent on the userâs bandwidth or Internet speed.he Difference. There is none. Download speed is the rate at which data is transferred from the Internet to the userâs computer. The upload speed is the rate that data is transferred from the userâs computer to the Internet.
With only one exception, all the download tests I ran at the AT&T Internet Speed Test and at Ookla's Speedtest.net indicated speeds of 11.5Mbps or greater. One of the dozen-or-so tests recorded a download speed of 10.4Mbps, and several of Ookla's Flash-based test results exceeded 12.5Mbps for downloads.