Recommendation for LMG for future network videos

[KuJoe]

Every time you guys do a networking video you use some online speed test website as a performance benchmark which is basically worthless as evident in the last video (the Ubiquiti "Long Distance WiFi" one where upload and download speeds were wonky) and you do a large file transfer which gives a good view of real world performance, but can be inconsistent and depends on the speeds of other hardware versus just the networking hardware. If you want to truly benchmark your network and get a consistent result, go grab iperf. There's a version for Windows, Linux, and even an ARM variant for other devices. It's only 2 commands (one on the server, one on the client) and will give you a better view of the full network performance between two devices.

 

Originally I was going to suggest setting up an internal web server and run your own speed test page on the LAN, but after much testing with this I find iperf to be much more accurate and if you reverse the roles (client vs server) you can get both upload and download speeds relatively quickly.

 

Tagging Linus and Luke in hopes they see this: @LinusTech @Slick