Is there software that will measure the speed between my wireless access point and my laptop? Thanks in advance
measure thruput between wireless card and wap
Aug 16, 2005
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Yeah, you can use iPerf, install it on your laptop and a wired machine, and run it. Works really well.
I have the iperf executable but I don't know how to use it. Can you give me a little direction. Thanks in advance!
Well, it's fairly simple. You just need to do the following:
1) On the wired machine run "iperf -D" 2) On the client/wireless machine run "iperf -c [wired machine ip]"
Note that Iperf will give you the speed between two computers and not between the wireless access point and a wireless client. In order to get meaningful results from a high speed wireless connection, you need to have the test server connected with 100baseTX-FDX (full duplex) to the LAN ports on the wireless router. That will usually give about
80-90Mbits/sec on the 100baseTX-FDX end. If the wireless part is connected at 54Mbits/sec, you should get about 25Mbits/sec thruput. The LAN connected server computer has to be capeable of higher speed than the wireless computer or the results are worthless.See:
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IPerf examples.
If you're into Windoze centric tools, see:
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Taking a moment's reflection, NetSteady mused: | | 1) On the wired machine run "iperf -D"
Might have better results using the "-s" flag instead of "-D" if on Win OS.
| 2) On the client/wireless machine run "iperf -c [wired machine ip]"
Yeah, that would prolly work better ;)
Unless you need precise results, just use the free Qcheck:
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It gives you a ballpark speed.
- JB
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