Test 5: Watch a one-minute YouTube video

If you can’t watch YouTube on your broadb service, what’s the point of having broadband? Seriously, YouTube sets the bar pretty low for broadband requirements; its videos are encoded at a very low bit rate so they’ll play on most connections. We also tried watching the same video in ‘high quality’ mode: a more bandwidth-intensive mode. What was most noticeable on repeated tests with the Optus network was that the results were unpredictable. Sometimes pages would load incompletely or with incorrect styling, probably indicating packetloss (see our video of trying to watch YouTube on Optus!)