how to measure my LAN speed

[ESGLinux]

Hello Steve,

I have tried iperf (with the GUI client jperf) and it works very very well.
This is a nice tool.

Thanks,

ESG

2009/11/23 Steve Phillips <steve.phillips at gmail.com>

> You may want to try installing iperf if you are interested in measuring
> actual network throughput rather than just network interface speed.
>
> This runs in a client/server environment and should not be tested on a
> production network as it WILL saturate your link quite happily.
>
> It exists for almost every OS, and works over both UDP and TCP.
>
> The report it generates tells you network throughput over time.
>
> --
> Steve.
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:13 AM, ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I didn´t know this one.
> >
> > In my production machine I can´t install it but I have already installed
> it
> > in other systems and works great
> >
> > thank you very much
> >
> > ESG
> >
> > 2009/11/19 bedo <bedo.wang at gmail.com>
> >
> > > install ifstat in your box then you can use "ifstat" to monitor rate of
> > > interface
> > >
> > >
> > > 2009/11/19 ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > Hi thomas
> > > >
> > > > this command is great.
> > > >
> > > > I think is just what in looking for
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much
> > > >
> > > > ESG
> > > >
> > > > 2009/11/18 Thomas von Steiger <thomas.vonsteiger at bluewin.ch>
> > > >
> > > > > or:  sar -n DEV 1 10 | grep eth0
> > > > >
> > > > > where 1 interval an 10 count
> > > > >
> > > > > Thomas
> > > > >
> > > > > On 18.11.2009, at 18:33, ESGLinux wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > anyone knows a way to measure the real speed of an ethernet link?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have used the simplest way that is sending a file of 100
> > megabytes
> > > > and
> > > > > > record the time spent in the transmission. I think there must be
> a
> > > > better
> > > > > > way to do this,
> > > > > > perhaps with eth-tool, mii-tool, nc.....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > anyone knows?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ESG
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