Method for Measuring Network Speed, Computing Device, and Computer-Program Product

A computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media containing instructions configured to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining a downloading duration and a downloading byte count of each of N consecutive video segments upon receiving a network speed measurement command during downloading video content, wherein the video content comprises multiple video segments;
• calculating out a total downloading duration and a total downloading byte count of the N video segments according to the downloading duration and the downloading byte count of each of the N video segments;
• and
• calculating out a current network speed according to the total downloading duration and the total downloading byte count.

A non-transitory computer-program product tangibly embodied in a machine-readable non-transitory storage medium that comprises instructions configured to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• obtaining downloading duration and downloading byte count of each of N consecutive video segments upon receiving a network speed measurement command during downloading video content, wherein the video content comprises multiple video segments;
• calculating out total downloading duration and total downloading byte count of the N video segments according to the downloading duration and the downloading byte count of each of the N video segments;
• and
• calculating out a current network speed according to the total downloading duration and the total downloading byte count.