TPTEST For Mac

TPTEST is to allow users to measure the speed of their Internet connection in a simple way. TPTEST measures the throughput speed to and from various reference servers on the Internet. The use of TPTEST may help increase the consumer/end user knowledge of how Internet services work.

The client applications include "auto" test modes that try to determine the performance of your particular Internet connection. The results are a good guesstimate for the not-so-technical user who wishes to see if s/he gets what s/he is paying for but for really accurate results you need to know what you're doing and do it manually.

The auto modes determine TCP throughput by sending increasingly large amounts of data over the connection until the reception time is long enough (currently ten seconds) that the program judges the result to be fairly accurate.

UDP throughput is determined by performing repeated 5-second tests with higher and higher data rates until the calculated reception speed doesn't increase anymore. UDP throughput is usually significantly higher than TCP throughput, due to the TCP algorithm automatically backing off when it encounters a congestion, thus "making way" for the UDP transmissions.

Here are some key features of "TPTEST":

￭ Measures TCP throughput, incoming and outgoing ￭ Measures UDP throughput, incoming and outgoing ￭ Measures UDP packet loss, incoming and outgoing ￭ Measures UDP roundtrip times ￭ Measures UDP out-of-order packet reception