Do you have high-speed Internet? What constitutes “high speed” for an Internet service? It’s all relative. While you can run a speed test to find out how fast your Internet service is, whether it’s “fast enough” depends on what you’re doing with it.
While there are other types of Internet service, such as satellite, the three most popular types are DSL, cable and Fiber. DSL connections operate via telephone lines and usually range from 3 Mbps to 7 Mbps for a high tier service. Cable connections may perform at up to 300 Mbps of speed, though this is rare. Meanwhile, fiber connections can perform at up to 1,000 Mbps. You can test your own speed to see what it is.
It should be noted that Internet services have both an upload and a download speed. Most Internet services are asynchronous, which means their upload speeds are different from their download speeds. A cable connection may have 300 Mbps of download speed but only 7 Mbps of upload speed. If you’re streaming media, you only really care about your download speed. If you’re playing video games or uploading files, you may care about your upload speed as well.