I conducted the following Bandwidth Test using Blink Personal Edition 4.2.1.
Test conducted on an Alienware Area 51M 7700 Laptop with the following:
RAID 0 Hard Drive (7200 rpm) Configuration
P4 3.6 GHZ; 800 MHZ FSB
3GB of DDR2; 667 MHZ RAM
Windows XP Professional SP3
Both IE 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 installed
Internet Connection Used: Verizon FIOS (20mb/5mb Package)
Blink Personal Edition 4.2.1
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Speed Test Website Used: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
My Location: Columbia, MD
Test Server from the list that I used: Washington, DC
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The following tests were conducted:
1. Without Blink Installed on System:
IE Test:
Download - 20709 kbps
Upload - 4924 kbps
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 Test:
Download - 20715 kbps
Upload - 3855 kbps
2. With Blink Installed (Firewall on only):
IE Test:
Download - 20735 kbps
Upload - 4905 kbps
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 Test:
Download - 20786 kbps
Upload - 3868 kbps
3. With Blink Installed (AV on only):
IE Test:
Download - 20703 kbps
Upload - 4918 kbps
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 Test:
Download - 20751 kbps
Upload - 3837 kbps
4. With Blink Installed (Intrustion Protection on only):
IE Test:
Download - 20702 kbps
Upload - 4814 kbps
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 Test:
Download - 19544 kbps
Upload - 3827 kbps
5. With Blink Installed (System Protection on only):
IE Test:
Download - 20724 kbps
Upload - 4924 kbps
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 Test:
Download - 20758 kbps
Upload - 3877 kbps
6. With Blink Installed (FULL PROTECTION ON):
IE Test:
Download - 20722 kbps
Upload - 4874 kbps
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 Test:
Download - 18686 kbps
Upload - 3836 kbps
** I have screenshots available for each test conducted **