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Bandwidth Test Conducted with Blink.

Last post 01-15-2009 8:49 AM by Blue1978. 2 replies.
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  • 01-14-2009 6:38 PM

    Bandwidth Test Conducted with Blink.

    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 **

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  • 01-14-2009 9:15 PM In reply to

    Re: Bandwidth Test Conducted with Blink.

    Did you perform each test several times and take the average?  You should run each test at MINIMUM 5 times, spread out over a 10-15 minute period to give some reasonable guarantee of accurately depicting Blink's effect on your bandwidth.

  • 01-15-2009 8:49 AM In reply to

    Re: Bandwidth Test Conducted with Blink.

    It was done on the average of three tests each.

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