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Testing speed of an ethernet connection
23-10-2014 1:01 PM
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For example, everything goes via a 100Mbit switch (with a connection to the router for various stuff) and but ideally I'd like to avoid a second PC.
My main PC uses ethernet over power-plugs...
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Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
23-10-2014 1:06 PM
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Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
23-10-2014 2:14 PM
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Never knew about that until now, here are my results:
Version 1.3.1
OS Version: Windows 8
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4765T CPU @ 2.00GHz
Date: 10/23/2014
Time: 14:10:06
Program Parameters: 0
High Performance Timer: 0.0000005132
Test File: \\NAS\Public\NW_SpeedTest.dat
Write Time = 1.1723559 Seconds
Write Speed = 682.3866240 Mbps
Read Time = 0.9891923 Seconds
Read Speed = 808.7406160 Mbps
Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
23-10-2014 2:33 PM
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Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
23-10-2014 2:36 PM
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23-10-2014 3:45 PM
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I shall have to wire up a laptop to try it (nearly everything is wireless).
I tried http://www.totusoft.com/index.html on a Windows partition (wireless)
Quote Version 1.3.1
OS Version: Windows 7
Processor: AMD C-60 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Date: 10/23/2014
Time: 15:31:09
Program Parameters: 0
High Performance Timer: 0.0000010258
Test File: C:\Windows\temp\NW_SpeedTest.dat
Write Time = 0.2848029 Seconds
Write Speed = 2,808.9602240 Mbps
Read Time = 1.3480628 Seconds
Read Speed = 593.4441680 Mbps
That's for a 100MB file????
It's out by a factor of 100 or more.
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Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
23-10-2014 3:59 PM
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Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
24-10-2014 8:40 AM
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Did you manage to make any progress with this?
What is out by a factor of 100 or more?
Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
24-10-2014 9:36 AM
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Phil
Using a TP-Link Archer VR600 modem-router.
Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
24-10-2014 10:06 AM
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if I use the router utility program I can even monitor the speed of individual devices, not possible with some routers I appreciate but you don't strike me as the kind of person to use the isp supplied device
Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
24-10-2014 3:40 PM
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It has no stats gathering features.
The homeplugs have some Windows software - which is useless to me.
Since the ports are only 100Mbits (about 10MBytes/sec) a proper speed test is a bit hard.
Internet speeds achieve a maximum of 6 MBytes/sec
Anyway, my ethernet card is being difficult at the moment - so I'm buying another one.
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Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
24-10-2014 3:49 PM
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24-10-2014 3:50 PM
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sudo apt-get install iperf
Then on Computer A:
iperf -s
And on Computer B:
iperf -c <address of Computer A>
On the client machine, you'll see something like this:
iperf -c tim
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to tim, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.0.4 port 37248 connected with 192.168.0.5 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.04 GBytes 893 Mbits/sec
I've used it in the past to check the giga nics out.
Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
24-10-2014 7:19 PM
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I tried it on Wireless <--> router <--> Wireless
The server gave results of
Quote jeremy@debian:~$ iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local 192.168.1.64 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.8 port 32855
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.3 sec 6.88 MBytes 5.60 Mbits/sec
Which is why you shouldn't use Wireless...
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Re: Testing speed of an ethernet connection
24-10-2014 7:30 PM
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