
Benchmarking a Wifi Connection?
#1
Posted 26 March 2011 - 11:48 PM
Does anybody know of any good Wifi benchmarking utilities?
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#2
Posted 27 March 2011 - 12:51 AM
I'm sure you can figure it out yourself, but heres a bit of a tutorial
http://openmaniak.com/iperf.php
#3
Posted 27 March 2011 - 12:34 PM
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Posted 27 March 2011 - 12:43 PM

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#5
Posted 28 March 2011 - 10:56 AM
I'm seeing a lot of tools but most of them are fairly complicated. Essentially all I want to do is blast X MBPS traffic to IP Y over TCP or UDP and then measure how much traffic actually makes it through versus what is sent
QCheck would do the throughput test, but I can't get it to install on Win7. And its not something I'm willing to pay for to troubleshoot the laptop performance. It's my wife's, and she wouldn't be impressed with numbers anyway. My most recent bout of troubleshooting for her was to resolve her "home page being cluttered", which I took to mean a browser hijacker had changed her home page. She was talking about her desktop.
#6
Posted 29 March 2011 - 01:14 PM
Assuming you access to *nix-based boxes, this solution should work for you:I'm seeing a lot of tools but most of them are fairly complicated. Essentially all I want to do is blast X MBPS traffic to IP Y over TCP or UDP and then measure how much traffic actually makes it through versus what is sent
http://serverfault.c...two-points/5119
1. Listen and pipe to /dev/null on one machine
nc –l –p 7000 | /dev/null
2. Connect and pipe 100MiB of random data on the other
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=100 | nc 192.168.1.120 7000 –q 10
2 (alt). For realtime stats use pipeviewer
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=100 | pv | nc 192.168.1.120 7000 -q 10
#7
Posted 30 March 2011 - 05:51 PM

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#8
Posted 30 March 2011 - 06:27 PM
The pv tool is pretty slick! You'll likely need to yum/apt-get it for linux or use homebrew to install it for mac.It's a MacBook Pro (mid 2010 edition), AirPort Express (Dual Band, Gigabit), and then the other system I'd be connecting to is Windows7. I can run many of the Linux utilities on the Mac and I can toss a different disk (just for convenience) into the Windows 7 machine and boot it up into Linux or I could use a LiveCD
http://www.ivarch.co...ograms/pv.shtml
The dd command might need to be tweaked with different bs (block size) and count depending on how much junk you need to send across the wire.
Whatever option you choose, I would be interested in the results.
Peace,
Brian
#9
Posted 30 March 2011 - 06:28 PM

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