Is an assessment test a speed test? No, it's a detailed test measuring throughput speed, capacity, and packet quality to assess the user experience, including efficiency, data loss, recovery, duplication, retransmissions, and corruption.

What is connection efficiency? It's a measure of delay increase as data volume rises, comparing it to traffic on a highway – higher efficiency means less impact on user experience as traffic volume increases.

What is the VNA test? It's a comprehensive VoIP Network Assessment, testing metrics like jitter, packet loss, MOS scores, capacity, SIP ALG detection, and max concurrent VoIP calls. The capacity test measures overall connection capacity but takes 3-4 minutes.

Why is packet quality important? Packet quality matters because most network data must be in order to be usable; delays due to lost or delayed packets can be significant.

What is buffer delay (buffer bloat)? Buffer delay affects efficiency, more delay is less efficient; it's crucial to differentiate between buffer delays and quality delays caused by issues like packet loss, retransmissions, and duplicates.

What is a MOS score? MOS (Mean Opinion Score) assesses packet quality for applications like VoIP, ranging from 1-5; above 4 is good, 3.5-3.9 is not so good, and below 3.5 may have voice quality issues.

Difference between VoIP packet loss and data packet loss? VoIP packets are time-dependent; if they don't arrive on time, they're discarded, unlike non-time-dependent data packets.

Is a connection's trip time (RTT) important? Yes, trip time is crucial; it's the most important measure of a connection, similar to preferring a road sign reporting 'Time to destination' over 'Traffic flow,' and faster, shorter trips are preferable for multiple journeys.