Why is my connection so important? ❓
During the Microverse program, you will be Zoom video (and screen-share) calls with your peers on a daily basis. If one or more students have a suboptimal internet connection, that makes it very frustrating and ruins the collaborative learning experience for everyone! Thus, we have systems set up to help monitor your connection via Zoom's APIs and ensure that your connection is up to video call standards.
If your connection isn't good or stable enough, our team will reach out to you, and you'll have a few days to fix it. However, this puts you at risk of falling behind in our program or having to drop out and return in the future – you will have wasted your precious time and money just because you didn't take the time to fix this early enough.
So, it's important that you invest in a good connection today to move through our program and get that great remote software developer job as quickly as possible!
Testing your connection 🧪
Complete both of these tests to evaluate your internet connection:
Test #1: Use this link to measure your upload and download speed, jitter, and ping.
Test #2: To measure packet loss, open your terminal and type:
For Mac/Linux: ping -c 100 8.8.8.8
For Windows: ping -n 100 8.8.8.8
Requirements ✔️
In order to join our full-time program, the following internet connectivity requirements must be met:
⬇️ Download speed must be ABOVE 3 Mbps
⬆️ Upload speed must be 1 Mbps and ABOVE
🎢 Jitter must be BELOW 30 ms
🔁 Ping/Latency must be BELOW 150 ms
🕳 Packet loss must be BELOW, or equal to, 1%
If your results don't meet these requirements, follow the steps in the section below.
Improving your connection ⚒️
Here are some resources to help improve your internet connection:
⬇️ Download speed: Try these steps to improve your download speed.
⬆️ Upload speed: Try these steps to improve your upload speed.
🎢 Jitter: Try these steps to reduce jitter.
🔁 Ping/Latency: Try these steps to improve latency.
🕳 Packet loss: Try these steps to reduce packet loss.
Lastly, if none of the steps above have fixed the issue, please reach out to your Internet Service Provider and request an internet connection upgrade.
Having a backup connection 💡
If the quality of your connection varies a lot by time of day or day of the week, it's important that you also invest in a backup source.
Read more about other requirements to join our full-time program.