I'm currently in the early stages of planning a probject for a course I'm on, and one of the things I would like to do is to be able to accurately test my wired and wireless home network in a way that is accurate and would not be bottlenecked by anything other than the network itself (so for a throughput test I dont want to simply transfer a file, because other than being hard to record results it could be slowed down by hard drives or the machines themselves).
So does anyone have any free or open source programs (doesn't have to be all in one, I don't mind using multiple programs if needed) that I can test throughput of my wired and wireless network, and in the case of wireless also monitor signal strength so that I can input the data into another program to create a contour map.
If none know a prorgam that can create a contour map then a program to accurately monitor signal strength wont be needed as I can't think of any other good way to represent that data.
And to give you an idea of what sort of contour map I'm talking about, something like this, but with a floorplan of my house and going from green to red depending on signal strength.
So does anyone have any free or open source programs (doesn't have to be all in one, I don't mind using multiple programs if needed) that I can test throughput of my wired and wireless network, and in the case of wireless also monitor signal strength so that I can input the data into another program to create a contour map.
If none know a prorgam that can create a contour map then a program to accurately monitor signal strength wont be needed as I can't think of any other good way to represent that data.
And to give you an idea of what sort of contour map I'm talking about, something like this, but with a floorplan of my house and going from green to red depending on signal strength.
