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What's the difference between "test content speed" and "test peak speed" in Orb?
I use Orb for Internet speed test. What's the difference between "test content speed" and "test peak speed" in Orb?
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This is mostly covered by the documentation.
Orb's primary speed measurements and important for activities like streaming videos, downloading files, video conferencing, and other relevant day-to-day activities. Content speed tests are performed by downloading and uploading a small amount of data (10 MB file) to and from your device.
While peak speed measurements are available and can be initiated by the user at any time, they are informational only and not included in the Orb Score. Peak speed tests are performed by fully flooding your connection with data to measure the maximum speed your device can achieve.
It is unspecific as to how they "fully flood your connection with data" for the peak test. If I were to design such a thing, I would
- Start downloading a medium to large file.
- While this is ongoing, start another download.
- Test whether the bandwidth with two downloads is faster than the speed of one.
- Keep adding connections and testing the total baud until new connections are obviously harmful rather than helpful.
- Cancel all downloads.
- Return highest throughput number.
- Repeat for upload.
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