Thursday, February 26, 2009

How Fast is Your BlackBerry

Cisco has an application to test the network speed of iPhone and BlackBerry Storm. The application is called Global Internet Speed Test (GIST). 
The test is performed by downloading a known quantity of data from a single web server. The size of the data is different for the different types of network connections, so that the test will take roughly the same amount of time from the user’s perspective. For a cellular network test, 256KB are downloaded. For wireless, 512 KB are downloaded. A single download is performed, timed in milliseconds, and results are reported in terms of 1000 bits per second (kbps). 

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