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Chocobo |
Good program for testing LAN speed
Does anyone know of a good program to test LAN speed? I've heard of one made by Unisys called SoftCAR or something like that, but I can't ever find it.
Joseph Jam it back in, in the dark. |
You could just copy some files over it.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Chocobo |
But then I wouldn't get the speed (or exact speed...)
Joseph This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
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What the fuck, you shouldn't even need this.
You clearly know what the maximum speed of LAN is. Is that somehow not good enough for you to know? It'll be somewhere around 10, 11, 56, or 100 Mbps, depending on the hardware. Again, how is that not good enough? I was speaking idiomatically. |
Copying a large file is a great way to test the speed. Pinging gives you a quicker answer as well. (From the command line "Ping 192.168.109.2"*, it'll give you the time it took for a network signal to get from your machine to the other and back, giving you an idea of network lag which isn't really shown with the sustained file transfer. *Use the IP address of the machine you want to ping, the number provided is just an example. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
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Chocobo |
Geez! Joseph FELIPE NO |
The maximum theoretical throughput (speed) for a 100 Mb link is 12.5 MB/sec. However, this does not mean that the speed will be such; overhead, for one, must be taken into account. On most LANs, pinging--unless clients are connected through multiple decvices--will not give any accurate example of actual speed, since the average ping packet is small and, thereby, easy to transmit very quickly. (Pinging in those situation mostly returns response times of "less than a millisecond," which doesn't provide a good indication.) That is, very small transfers across a fast link are rarely a good measure of the actual throughput. I don't know why you'd be concerned about data transfer speeds over a home LAN, however. Such is rarely ever a problem: it would be hard to completely saturate the link. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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