On Thursday the agency launched a new tool that allows consumers to test the download and upload speeds of their broadband connections. The tool, which can be found at www.broadband.gov, tests wireless or landline-based broadband connections. It also allows consumers to see the latency, the time it takes for data to be sent from a computer to the testing server and back, and jitter, the variability in the delay between a computer and the testing server, that's being detected on their connections.