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How does GlassWire test to make sure its network statistics are accurate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. We use many different methods to test GlassWire’s network monitoring accuracy.  For this blog post we used an application that downloads a specific file without any additional traffic. We used wget http:\/\/gnuwin32.sourceforge.net\/packages\/wget.htm<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. For this test we also used a standard file of a predefined size. You can find it here: http:\/\/speedtest.reliableservers.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What was the application testing process?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. We downloaded a file of a known size to confirm the statistics in GlassWire are accurate.<\/li>\n
    2. How we run wget: c:\\Program Files (x86)\\wget\\bin>wget -o d:\\tmp\\10mb http:\/\/speedtest.reliableservers.com\/10MBtest.bin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      10MB file result:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      100 MB file result:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      As you can see above, downloading the file showed the correct statistics inside GlassWire.<\/p>\n

      If you run into any problems with GlassWire not detecting network activity please try rebooting.  In some unusual cases a small subset of users may miss network activity without a reboot.<\/p>\n

      Also please note that using browsers like Google Chrome do not give accurate test results because browsers are almost always sending\/receiving data for many different reasons and this causes inaccurate results.  This is why we used wget in our testing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

      Please visit our forum<\/a> to discuss our network statistic accuracy along with anything else so we can continue to improve GlassWire in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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