SmokePing:

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:36 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a decent way to benchmark different wifi setups? I
>> can copy a file over FTP or samba, thought about netcat too... but they
>> all seem to involve overhead or variables which could change the outcome.
>>
>> I am sure there is a better way.
>
> iperf will do what you seek, and removes such things as disk performance
> etc from the equation.  You'll be only bottlenecked by the the bus speed,
> which is good because if, for instance, you're using a gigabit network
> connection through a USB port, you'll be limited to what's available via
> USB.
>
> I've used it often to test fibre connections at my old job, and still use
> it today to validate that a network card can reliably do fdx speeds.
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/
>
>
> -SM
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeremy
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