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How to Measure the Performance Benefits?
People can benefit most from a
Broadband Booster
under the
following conditions:
Their internet connection has a narrow uplink, such as with an ADSL or
cable modem.
They are using interactive applications like online games, VoIP, video
conferencing, or application sharing.
There are other network applications that run while they are using
interactive applications. These might include sending e-mail attachments,
file sharing, or even other VoIP calls or online games.
Some people are familiar with measuring the quality of their
internet connection by pinging a remote server. There are several
problems with doing this. First of all, ping times measure round-
trip latency from the client to the server, and back again. Online
games are most affected by one-way delay from the client to the
server. Second, QoS features may handle ping packets differently
than packets from time-sensitive applications. For these reasons,
ping times may not match the delays actually seen by an online
game, for example.
To see realtime performance benefits, Hawking recommends the
user to run two internet applications (i.e. uploading a file to an
FTP server while playing Quake 3 – Online game) with and
without the Broadband Booster. You will notice that with the
Broadband Booster both applications will run seemlessly.
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