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Is there software that will measure the speed between my wireless
access point and my laptop?
Thanks in advance

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Yeah, you can use iPerf, install it on your laptop and a wired machine,
and run it. Works really well.

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I have the iperf executable but I don't know how to use it.
Can you give me a little direction.
Thanks in advance!

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Well, it's fairly simple. You just need to do the following:

1) On the wired machine run "iperf -D"
2) On the client/wireless machine run "iperf -c [wired machine ip]"

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On 16 Aug 2005 15:00:20 -0700, "jawdoc" <drbrooks@msoms.com> wrote:

>I have the iperf executable but I don't know how to use it.
>Can you give me a little direction.

Note that Iperf will give you the speed between two computers and not
between the wireless access point and a wireless client. In order to
get meaningful results from a high speed wireless connection, you need
to have the test server connected with 100baseTX-FDX (full duplex) to
the LAN ports on the wireless router. That will usually give about
80-90Mbits/sec on the 100baseTX-FDX end. If the wireless part is
connected at 54Mbits/sec, you should get about 25Mbits/sec thruput.
The LAN connected server computer has to be capeable of higher speed
than the wireless computer or the results are worthless.

See:
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
for IPerf examples.

If you're into Windoze centric tools, see:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/do [...] rk/nsl.htm

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Taking a moment's reflection, NetSteady mused:
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| 1) On the wired machine run "iperf -D"

Might have better results using the "-s" flag instead of "-D" if on
Win OS.

| 2) On the client/wireless machine run "iperf -c [wired machine ip]"

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Yeah, that would prolly work better

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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:37:40 -0700, jawdoc wrote:

> Is there software that will measure the speed between my wireless
> access point and my laptop?
> Thanks in advance

Unless you need precise results, just use the free Qcheck:

http://www.ixiacom.com/products/qcheck

It gives you a ballpark speed.

- JB