Any apps that show or test network speed?

Phil2008 · 26 Oct 2011 at 20:40

Im going to be sorting out a office network out tomorrow, and was wondering is their a good tool for win xp that shows me the speed of the network when copying files across?

ecksmen · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:02

If its a test of raw network speed, then moving files about isn't great.

iperf.exe

You need to put this onto a client and a remote machine, one runs a as a server

Code:

iperf -p 444 -s

where -p is the TCP listening port (use one that isn't currently inuse and that is allowed through firewalls etc...)

Then on the client

Code:

iperf -p 444 -c Servername -w2m

where -c is the target server, either IP or DNS name etc... and where -w 2m is the window size.

I think there's a gui version available but command line is simple enough...

KIA · 27 Oct 2011 at 11:20

Task Manager > Networking

Phal · 27 Oct 2011 at 12:21

Task Manager doesn't really test network speeds :/ The new Resource Monitor can show how much bandwidth is currently being used but that isn't testing the speed.

iperf or it's slightly more user friendly cousin with a gui jperf is good.

KIA · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:32

Task Manager will show the throughput which is what he asked for.

bledd · 27 Oct 2011 at 18:06

One way to test speed reliably is create a network share on one machine

Then on another machine, install TeraCopy and copy a large file (1gig ish) to the network share using TeraCopy

Will tell you the speed it's copying

Of course it will be limited to harddrive speed / network speed