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  • Open a command prompt and navigate to the extracted iperf2 folder: 

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    cd \Users\Administrator\iperf-2.0.9-win32
    dir 


  • Now you can run your desired iperf test:

Apple macOS

  • Download and extract to any folder
  • Open a terminal
  • cd to your extracted iperf folder

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    iMac:~ $ cd Downloads/iperf-2.0.5-macos-x86_64
    
    iMac:iperf-2.0.5-macos-x86_64 $ ls -lh
    total 176
    -rw-r--r--  1   staff   693B Feb 20  2011 README
    drwxr-xr-x@ 8   staff   272B Feb 20  2011 doc
    -rwxr-xr-x@ 1   staff    78K Feb 20  2011 iperf
    -rw-r--r--@ 1   staff   3.7K Feb 20  2011 iperf.1
    
    iMac:iperf-2.0.5-macos-x86_64 $ ./iperf -c iperf.wiscnet.net
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Client connecting to iperf.wiscnet.net, TCP port 5001
    TCP window size:  128 KByte (default)
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    [  5] local 10.0.10.100 port 51961 connected with 205.213.14.56 port 5001
    [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
    [  5]  0.0-10.0 sec   184 MBytes   154 Mbits/sec
    iMac:iperf-2.0.5-macos-x86_64 $


*nix

  • Many Lunix and Unix distros will have iperf in official repositories. Make sure to install iperf2 (iperf), not iperf3

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