networking – Captain 365 https://captain-365.com Exploring the Azure blue seas Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:56:46 +0000 en hourly 1 182898163 Test networking speeds and connectivity with Free tool Iperf https://captain-365.com/test-networking-speeds-and-connectivity-with-free-tool-iperf/ https://captain-365.com/test-networking-speeds-and-connectivity-with-free-tool-iperf/#respond Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:47:15 +0000 https://captain-365.com/?p=368 Read more]]> You can easily setup a test to see if your UTP infrastructure is ok. I used to test a specific wall out let that was not giving me the gigbyte speeds I was expecting. I could see the difference in speed clearly when switching between wall outlets.

I am not going into detail. You can read this in the documentation of the tool itself.
I just downloaded the tool on a laptop and a pc and set the PC as the server side and the laptop as the client.

//Client

iperf3 -c <ip of server >

//Server

iperf3 -s / iperf3 -s

Usefull links

Download Iperf software

Documentation

How to determine a network cable’s maximum speed? – Super User

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