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Second, the client and server need to move data quickly, and anything else running on either machine, like that installation of Java security patch 37 or even an Excel autosave, can cause a hiccup that distorts the results.
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For example, if your son is playing online video games, your daughter is watching Netflix, your wife is chatting on Skype, and your PC is downloading Java security patch 37, the tool will measure not how much bandwidth you have but how much bandwidth you have left. While this can provide a reasonable estimate of available bandwidth, it’s also subject to a number of variables that can render the results meaningless.
Consumer “bandwidth testers” (most are OEM-badged versions of a single system from Ookla) run a file transfer between the user’s PC and a server somewhere on the Internet, and assume that the speed of the transfer is limited by the bandwidth of the user’s connection to the carrier. Most people assume that bandwidth testing is easy – just check the line and see how much bandwidth it has. Then I ran the Verizon test and it reported that I was getting 30.6 Mbps inbound but only 12.9 Mbps outbound.
Certainly nothing to complain about there. I ran on my 25/25 FIOS line, and it claimed that I was getting 30.7 Mbps inbound and 25.3 Mbps outboard. This is clearly a topic near and dear to our hearts here at Apposite (or more importantly, to our wallets), so I decided to run my own tests to see what had this excitable crowd in such a lather over bandwidth testing. I pawed through the copious vitriol, mostly along the lines of “Verizon is a rabid pack of lying, cheating, thieves.” (I’m paraphrasing a bit, but I think that accurately summarizes the sentiment.) The main thrust of the argument was that Verizon provides a bandwidth testing application ( ) that apparently gives higher results than third party bandwidth test tools such as, evidence that Verizon is not only shorting people of bandwidth, but doctoring the test results in a crude attempt to hide it.
There was surprisingly little dialogue about why a mile from the UCLA campus I can watch every Purdue football game on FIOS but not UCLA, but instead the site was filled with chatter about broadband speeds. In an attempt to find out if the local telecoms provider ( Verizon) will ever start carrying the local sports teams (Lakers, USC, UCLA) on TV, I stumbled upon on a Verizon discussion site.