The embodiment of the invention provides a network quality detection method and equipment, relates to the technical field of communication, and aims to solve the problem that the network quality detection is not comprehensive or accurate as the amount of information obtained by a detection method in the prior art is relatively small. The network quality detection method can include: a first router receives a detection task, sends a preset length of UDP (User Datagram Protocol) message to each node on a transmission route, records timestamps and the number of the sent UDP message, and receives ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) messages fed back by the different nodes on the transmission route, wherein the ICMP messages include MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) values; based on the timestamps and the number of the sent UDP message, the timestamps and the number of the received ICMP messages, and the MTU values in the received ICMP messages, the network quality between the first route and the different nodes is detected.