What tools do you guys use

[dylandylandylan]

to test the speeds of the internal network? Just want to see the difference in speed between using a wireless dongle vs pci vs wired.

Is it as crude as downloading a file and just seeing how long it'd take? ;)

[GeneralBear]

i do internal transfers to my nas and back

[PBaines]

Just copy a large file transfer there and back, it gives you the speed in the copying window

[LargeGeek]

Don't neglect PING. Ping your router & other machines to see where other hang-ups might exist. On a wired connection you should see <1 ms ping times. Throughput is only half the equation. Ping is where you will feel it on gaming and page-loads. Also if you are doing any RDP or a lot of remote file navigation.

 

And keep in mind that if you are transferring files between spinning disks over a Gigabit network, you most likely will not spike the connection, but as long as you are seeing transfers well over 12/MBps then you are definitely getting Gigabit performance. There are tools that run RAM-to-RAM transfers that can spike any connection to really test performance, but I haven't dabbled with them.

[dylandylandylan]

Thanks for the input guys! I guess I'll just do a transfer between my NAS and my PC

[Darren]

ping for latency, iperf for throughput. All you need :)

[looney]

iperf and I/O meter.