network monitor tools to help measure file transfer speed

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jata
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network monitor tools to help measure file transfer speed

#1 Post by jata »

Hi,

I need to do some testing of file transfer performance/speed on my network over wifi and compare results with that of ms windows.

So, i have installed slacko puppy 5.3 and I have sucessfully connected to my network using wifi.

I need to run some tests that record file transfer speed between the slacko pc and a couple of network shares. What tools can I use for doing this?

Thanks

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#3 Post by rcrsn51 »

Here is a little tool called iperf. There are two ways to use it.

1. Since your Time Capsule is acting as a Samba server, run the following command on your Puppy machine. Use the Time Capsule's IP address.

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iperf -c aaa.bbb.cc.dd -p 139
Wait 10 seconds. Some other possible port numbers are 135,137,138,445.

2. If you have two Puppy machines on your network, start one of them as an iperf server with

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iperf -s
On the client machine, run

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iperf -c aaa.bbb.cc.dd 
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#4 Post by jata »

how do i make sense of the iperf -c output?

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#5 Post by rcrsn51 »

Iperf generates a stream of TCP data between a client and server and measures the throughput in Mbits/second. For example, I was able to compare the speeds to a Samba server from a wired versus wireless client.

Since it doesn't time an actual file transfer, this may not be exactly what you are looking for. However, there is a Windows version of iperf that might help you make the comparisons you desire.

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#6 Post by trapster »

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#7 Post by darkcity »

thanks for info, added to wiki-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Iperf

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