On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:44:53 -0700
Gary Roach <garyro...@verizon.net> wrote:

> On 06/03/2015 11:55 PM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > Well, it's not shut down, as I just tried it and it works fine here.
> > Maybe it was down, though, and you should try again?
> >
> > If it still doesn't work, then check your firewall. It shouldn't give
> > you any problems, as you are simply trying to establish a connection to
> > port 5201 on a remote machine, but check. Enable firewall logging, if
> > possible, and see if anything gets blocked. Verify that you can reach
> > the webserver running on the same host.
> >
> > Also try with UDP ("-u -b 0").
> >
> > Petter
> >
> Well all of a sudden iperf.scottlinux.com works The send and receive 
> with TCP packets is about the same. Below is a typical example:
> 
> root@xxxxxxxxxx# iperf3 -c iperf.scottlinux.com -R -V
<snip>
> Test Complete. Summary Results:
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  32.4 MBytes  27.2 Mbits/sec 0             sender
> [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  32.2 MBytes  27.0 Mbits/sec                  
> receiver
> CPU Utilization: local/receiver 3.8% (0.6%u/3.2%s), remote/sender 0.1% 
> (0.0%u/0.1%s)
> 
> iperf Done.
> 
>   As you can see, I'm getting about half of the 50Mbits/sec for which I 
> contracted. But this is way better than my actual speed. I ran the same 
> test with udp packets and got:

When I tested against the same host last night I got around 40Mbps (I
also have 50Mbps), but I'm in Norway, so that doesn't seem so bad. I
tried again right now, and got ~45Mbps.

What do you mean that this is way better than your actual speed? This
_is_ the measured speed to this host :) Do you normally get lower speed
to other hosts?

Your ISP probably doesn't guarantee that you actually get 50Mbps
unless you have a business line, but most likely says "speeds _up to_
50Mbps" or something similar. So that would be normal.

Also try a few online speed tests, like the one at speed.io, and see
what they tell you. Your ISP might also have one.

> root@xxxxxxx# iperf3 -c iperf.scottlinux.com -R -u -V
<snip>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Test Complete. Summary Results:
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Jitter Lost/Total 
> Datagrams
> [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.26 MBytes  1.06 Mbits/sec  0.660 ms 0/161 (0%)
> [  4] Sent 161 datagrams
> CPU Utilization: local/receiver 0.3% (0.0%u/0.3%s), remote/sender 0.1% 
> (0.0%u/0.1%s)
> 
> iperf Done.
> 
> Now I'm really confused. I thought UDP packets were going through at 
> full speed and TCP plackets were slow. This data says just the opposite.

Yeah, Reco just explained this to me in a different thread. For UDP you
need to specify the target bandwidth, the default is 1Mbps. Use "-b 0"
to set it to unlimited. For earlier versions it needs to be at the end
of the line, don't know about iperf3. See the man page for details.

Petter

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