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Jan. 20, 2023
OTI is mentioned in a Wirecutter article about the pros and cons of different VPN services, with the article citing OTI’s 2016 white paper on best practices for measuring broadband performance when describing the forgiving nature of the multi-threaded approach to speed testing.
Ookla takes a “multi-threaded” approach to testing, using up to 16 streams. Multi-threaded testing, according to a 2016 white paper by Open Technology Institute, has a higher tolerance for background packet losses and can obfuscate deficiencies in the network, so it tends to be more forgiving than other tests.