Study shown that Wi-FI causes a 30% drop in broadband speeds


Study shown that Wi-FI causes a 30% drop in broadband speeds

What is the most attractive broadband news I can update on my lovely blog? Landing on thinkbroadband.com and found it one which reporting about study result conducted by Epitiro and published at thinkbroadband.com on Thursday 10th March 2011. What is news reported there? It is a reported generated by Epitiro a company which specializes in benchmarking quality of broadband and Internet connections, mentioned that Wi-FI causes a 30% drop in broadband speeds. Epitiro conducted the study at USA, UK, Italy and Spain to more than 14.000 customers to test broadband performance when connecting over a wireless and wired connection to the broadband router

What is details news reported by thinkbroadband.com? The broadband speed average was drop about 31.6%, with the UK faring best with a 26.5% drop whilst Italy came in worth with a 40% drop in speed. The study did not however look to understand the difference between countries. However the lower speed caused by WiFi connection is not affect to the quality of experience (QoE) when using WiFi connection. The throughput decreses is not necessary notable when broadband users browse the web or using email but when they download huge file, it will affected.

Comparing to the wired broadband connection, WI-Fi connection increase in latency and jitter ( a variance in latency). Besides increase the latency, WiFi connection is also affecting to the some application such as online gaming or Voice over IP telephone calls using services like Skype. A study conducted by Epitiro that published at thinkbroadband.com reported that broadband connection that using Wi-FI will increase which means more people may start to see the impact of saturation on their network

If you are broadband user, you should start to aware regarding this news and start to select which one broadband connection you will select to support your actvity

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