How to Measure Network Throughput

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Network Throughput Testing Tools More
Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago by Alejandro Toporek | permalink
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In this article we'll take a look at a few network throughput testing tools.
Tags: iperf, ixchariot, lan speed, netstress, network, tamosoft, testing, throughpul, tools

For further reading: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/netgeneral/network-throughput-testing-tools.html ^[1]

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How to test real network throughput between two points? More
Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago by Aaron Harward | permalink
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What are some of the better tools/utilities for testing real bandwidth across a link? In my case I am testing the real throughput across a wifi bridge.

For further reading: http://serverfault.com/questions/5111/how-to-test-real-network-throughput-between-two-points ^[2]

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Measuring Network Performance: Test Network Throughput, Delay-Latency, Jitter, Transfer Speeds, Packet loss & Reliability. Packet Generation Using Iperf / Jperf More
Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago by beer 2k | permalink
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Read our complete guide on measuring LAN, WAN & WiFi network link performance, throughput, Jitter and network latency. Discover your network’s optimum TCP window-size, measure network delay, UDP/TCP packet loss, router and real VPN throughput, WAN connections, Wireless performance between different access points, backbone switch performance and other network devices. Test Cisco against HP or Juniper network equipment performance and discover the real differences.
Tags: Iperf, Jperf, pathtest, Cisco, catalyst, network, speed, performance, throughput, packets, frames, TCP, latency, jitter, voip, Window-size, mss, MTU, maximum segment size, maximum transmission unit, Ethernet, hp, procurve. Switch, juniper, layer2, layer 3, Linux, window
For further reading: http://www.firewall.cx/networking-topics/general-networking/970-network-performance-testing.html ^[3]

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Wireless Witch: How to Test Your Wireless Performance More
Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago by Ana Renovatto | permalink
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It's hard to optimize your wireless network if you don't know how to get a baseline measurement of its performance. Here's how.
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For further reading: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425225,00.asp ^[4]

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Category: Fun | 9 years, 6 month(s) ago

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1. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/netgeneral/network-throughput-testing-tools.html

2. http://serverfault.com/questions/5111/how-to-test-real-network-throughput-between-two-points

3. http://www.firewall.cx/networking-topics/general-networking/970-network-performance-testing.html

4. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425225,00.asp