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RH_User
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How to measure workstation DL/UL speed?

Happy New Year to all!

I need to measure the speed 2 workstations within my home network download a large file from the Internet, when downloading simultaneously.

I am after how my workstations within the home network share bandwidth. I have some sort of bandwidth control within TP-LINK router but I am not sure it is working properly for minimum (guaranteed) bandwidth. I plan to download a large (1G) file form the Internet and play with the settings, however I need to be able to see the download speed and how it changes.

I have both, Windows and Mac end points, I can set up any of those environments.

Can you recommend tools to measure network DL/UL speed at a workstation level? Online tools won't help.
HELLFIRE
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IPERF... or it's Windows-based Java variant xjperf

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shdesigns
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I don't see why two online tests started at the same time won't work.

You can use something like wget to download a large file, should be on the Mac, you can probably find a windows version.

RH_User
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Online tests are usually very brief. I need something to run for a longer time.

What I am actually trying to see is:

- Start one workstation and generate full load/use up all the bandwidth
- Bring up the second one and start download as well
- The second ws will have a setup with min bandwidth guaranteed @ 70% of my DL link while the first one will have 5% min bandwidth guaranteed
- I want to test if for the first one the DL rate is actually going to drop to allow the second one to take over 70% of the bandwidth

HELLFIRE
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...or find a large file to download... the last file I found that fit the bill was Tom Clancy's HAWX demo at ~1GB in size.

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TheAnalyzer
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Here are some DL test flies:

»www.thinkbroadband.com/d ··· oad.html

TA

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Large file I can get from here:

»www.thinkbroadband.com/d ··· oad.html

The question is - how do I measure the download speed?

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shdesigns

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Did you try wget?
HELLFIRE
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said by RH_User :

The question is - how do I measure the download speed?

File size (kbit) / time to download (sec) = transfer rate (kbit / sec)... adjust your units of measurement accordingly.

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