Showing posts with label wlan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wlan. Show all posts

15 September 2014

594. Very, very briefly: Speedtest your WLAN

As shown here: http://firstin-lastout.com/2013/07/how-to-test-wifi-speed/

Install iperf: sudo apt-get install iperf

Open two terminal windows on the same computer:

Terminal 1$ iperf -s -u -i1
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on UDP port 5001
Receiving 1470 byte datagrams
UDP buffer size:  208 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
Terminal 2$ iperf -c 192.168.2.1 -u -i1 -l 1300 -b 100m -t 600
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.2.1, UDP port 5001
Sending 1300 byte datagrams
UDP buffer size:  208 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.2.110 port 56520 connected with 192.168.2.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0- 1.0 sec  4.46 MBytes  37.4 Mbits/sec
[  3]  1.0- 2.0 sec  4.45 MBytes  37.3 Mbits/sec
[  3]  2.0- 3.0 sec  4.28 MBytes  35.9 Mbits/sec
[  3]  3.0- 4.0 sec  4.32 MBytes  36.2 Mbits/sec
[  3]  4.0- 5.0 sec  4.42 MBytes  37.1 Mbits/sec
[  3]  5.0- 6.0 sec  4.35 MBytes  36.5 Mbits/sec
[  3]  6.0- 7.0 sec  4.39 MBytes  36.8 Mbits/sec
[  3]  7.0- 8.0 sec  4.35 MBytes  36.5 Mbits/sec
[  3]  8.0- 9.0 sec  4.41 MBytes  37.0 Mbits/sec

Where 192.168.2.1 is my wireless router.