Tech Advisor - UK (2020-07)

JULY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 69

distributewiththeirproducts(althoughin thatlatter

case,you’llbeusingawirelessconnection).

Don’tbesurprisedif testingonmorethanone

serviceyieldsslightlydifferentresults.Theamount

of data each test uses, the latency to and from each

server,andthealwayschangingnetworkconditionson

theInternetwillintroducesomeunavoidablevariability.

Time of day will as well; it’s no surprise that you’ll note

higherspeedsatmidnight,say,whenfewerpeople

willbestreaming.Thatvariabilityisthereasonthatwe

runbenchmarksoftwaremultipletimeswhenwetesta

laptoporCPU,tocomputeanaverage.Sincethetests

takeasecondortwotorun,youcandothesame.

Speedof.me is an HTML 5-based bandwidth
graph that doesn’t rely on Adobe Flash