Docs Phone & Calls Network Test

Network Test

Free tool to check whether your internet can handle clear VoIP calls, before you rely on it.


Network Test

Before you make an important call — or before signing up at all — you can check whether your internet connection is good enough for clear VoIP calls. It's free, takes about 5 seconds, and needs no login.

Try it

app.6xcom.com/network-test — click Run Network Test.

What it measures

  • Ping — how long it takes your connection to reach 6X's servers and back.
  • Jitter — how much that timing varies call to call. High jitter is what makes calls sound choppy even when the average ping looks fine.
  • Download / Upload speed — real throughput, timed directly, not estimated.

These are fed into the same ITU-T E-model formula real telecom engineers use to predict call quality, giving you an Excellent / Good / Fair / Poor result instead of raw numbers you'd have to interpret yourself.

One honest limitation

This test can't measure packet loss — that only shows up on a real active call's audio stream, which doesn't exist yet at this point. If a real call still sounds choppy despite a good result here, packet loss during the call itself is the likely cause.

While you're on a call

If you're logged into the 6X Softphone, a live version of this same indicator runs automatically on your call bar during an active call — more accurate than the pre-call test since it can see real call traffic, including packet loss.

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