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What is the Bandwidth Meter?
The CNET Bandwidth Meter measures the information-carrying capacity, or bandwidth, between the client and the server. In this case, the client is the user on the CNET Bandwidth Meter, and the server is the Internet Services server located in the United States, San Francisco, California.
What does the Bandwidth Meter do?
Once the test is executed, the CNET Bandwidth Meter will download an image to your computer. The image size will vary--50K, 150K, 500K, or 1.5MB--and is determined by the connection speed you choose. If you are unsure what type of connection you have, a 50K image will download to determine the throughput to your computer. The amount of time it takes for that file to be completely downloaded will be reported to our servers. The results of your test will be displayed adjacent to the maximum speeds offered by various types of Internet access providers, from dial-up to DSL and cable access.
Why do I want to use the Bandwidth Meter?
Often, users perform this test out of curiosity about what the actual throughput is to their computer from Web sites such as CNET Internet Services. In some cases, users have been able to troubleshoot their connections to the Internet by performing tests on the Bandwidth Meter.
What can affect the Bandwidth Meter results?
The bandwidth rate between our server and your computer could be affected by many factors. Some of the most
common are:
- Being outside of the United States or far away
from the location of our server.
- Performing other downloads at the same time that this test is executed.
- Executing other programs that use your bandwidth to monitor resources while this test is being executed.
- The quality of your line speed.In some cases users may find noise, which is caused by electromagnetic energy that degrades the quality of signals in hard-wired circuits (that is, telephone lines), thereby limiting the throughput to the computer.
- 56K modems are limited by FCC regulations to 53K.
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