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How We Test Hardware Routers – Version 4

Updated - The long overdue update of our Router test process brings powerful new hardware to bear and adds functional tests.

Our new wired and wireless test processes will include tougher tests and more of them.

Our new MU-MIMO test process measures both total throughput gain and scaling ability.

Our Router Ranker has changed to provide better ranking.

Storage performance benchmarks have been added to the Router Charts.

We test router storage performance using this procedure.

We have updated our process for testing wireless adapters and bridges.

We have once again improved our Rankers and tweaked our other product research tools.

Our new wireless test method gives products under test some extra space and addresses weaknesses in the previous process.

The new SmallNetBuilder wireless testbed once again uses octoScope's core technology and kicks it up a size.

We have added a Powerline Adapter Ranker to our product research toolset.

We have made changed the NAS Ranker to more accurately reflect real world product performance differences.