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- For a quick and easy testing, you may use to use WiscNet's HTML based browser test:
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WiscNet hosted Iperf
- Iperf is a commonly used network testing tool to help measure network throughput.
Iperf is an open source tool. There are clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, Bsd, etc. - Iperf operates where one end is the client, the other is the server. WiscNet runs an Iperf version 2 server in Eau Claire, WI.
- The server is restricted to WiscNet IP addresses.
- Iperf2 and iperf3 are incompatible
- iperf.wiscnet.net runs a TCP Iperf server on the default port (5001)
- iperf.wiscnet.net runs a UDP Iperf server on port 5002
- iperf.ipv6.wiscnet.net runs a v6 TCP Iperf server on port 5003
- iperf.ipv6.wiscnet.net runs a v6 UDP Iperf server on port 5004
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Unidirectional 1Gbps circuit test
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iperf -c iperf.wiscnet.net -t 10 -P 4 -u -b 250m -i1 |
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*Firewall settings and NAT will likely impact a bidirectional test and cause it to fail
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iperf -c iperf.wiscnet.net -t 10 -P 4 -u -b 250m -i1 -r -L 6001 |
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- Download and extract iperf2: iperf-2.0.9-win32.zip
- Right-click the downloaded iperfdownloaded iperf-2.0.9-win32.zip file zip file and extract the contents of the .zip to any folder (seen here under \Users\Administrator)
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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
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- Now you can run your desired iperf test:
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Apple macOS
- Download and extract to iperf-2.0.5-macos-x86_64.zip 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 |
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- Now you can run your desired iperf test:
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iMac:iperf-2.0.5-macos-x86_64 $ ./iperf -c iperf.wiscnet.net
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Client connecting to iperf.wiscnet.net, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 128 KByte (default)
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[ 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
Ubuntu
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$ apt-cache search iperf | grep -i iperf
iperf - Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool
iperf3 - Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool
$ sudo apt-get install iperf |
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