Rich Brown
Occasional Visitor
It would be great to include the results from the DSLReports Speed Test http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest as a standard part of your Router test suite.
What's so great about that particular speed test? DSLReports measures latency during the test to detect bufferbloat - the undesirable latency that comes from the router buffering too much data. (Other speed tests measure a few pings before starting the test. Those don't tell very much about the router's performance.)
If the router's latency stays low during the test, that means that voice calls won't get choppy, gaming won't lag out, and general web and network usage will be snappy, even during heavy up and downloads.
What's so great about that particular speed test? DSLReports measures latency during the test to detect bufferbloat - the undesirable latency that comes from the router buffering too much data. (Other speed tests measure a few pings before starting the test. Those don't tell very much about the router's performance.)
If the router's latency stays low during the test, that means that voice calls won't get choppy, gaming won't lag out, and general web and network usage will be snappy, even during heavy up and downloads.