How to Measure Network Throughput

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Tip 1 - Network Throughput Testing Tools

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Alejandro Toporek | permalink

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]

Tip 2 - How to test real network throughput between two points?

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Aaron Harward | permalink

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]

Tip 3 - Measuring Network Performance: Test Network Throughput, Delay-Latency, Jitter, Transfer Speeds, Packet loss & Reliability. Packet Generation Using Iperf / Jperf

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by beer 2k | permalink

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]