Linux always worked best for us as well, was easy running a livecd with laptops. We found that two windows XP machines, same identical hardware and OS load yielded different registry settings (or lack thereof) for TCP Window setting.
Jason On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Bret Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > True, we usually find Linux based machines work better running IPerf > then Windows (at least out of the box) because of the TCP window > size....well Windows XP at least, don't know about Vista or 7. > Jason Biel wrote: > > Please take note with using iperf that you'll want to make sure the > appropriate TCP Window Size has been negotiated. We recently did some > testing with systems that had decided to pick less than optimal window > sizes > and in turn had to manually set the size within iperf options. > > Jason > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Benoit VANNIER [1]<[email protected] > >wrote > : > > > Hello, > > Iperf is pretty good at this ... It s free > > > Ben > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Mark Urbach [[2]mailto:[email protected]] > Envoyé : lundi 2 novembre 2009 22:57 > À : [3][email protected] > Objet : Speed Testing and Throughput testing > > Anyone have a good solution to get "accurate" speed results when testing at > 10/100/1000 Ethernet speeds? > > Do you have a server/software that customer can test too? > > > > Thanks, > Mark Urbach > PinPoint Communications, Inc. > 100 N. 12th St Suite 500 > Lincoln, NE 68508 > 402-438-6211 ext 1923 Office > 402-660-7982 Cell > [4][email protected] > [[5]cid:[email protected]] > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected] > 4. mailto:[email protected] > 5. cid:[email protected] > -- Jason Biel
