Updated June 14, 2006 As of May 2006, we have moved to test routers using IxChariot. For routers tested before May 2006, we used this procedure. The setup shown in the diagram below is used with one computer running an IxChariot endpoint connected to the router...

Gigabit products respectively. These plots were created using an Azimuth MIMO Rate vs. Range script that interfaced with IxChariot to generate the data traffic and the Azimuth system to control signal attenuation. The test used the same modified IxChariot throughput.scr...

higher wireless speed and extended range. This time it's eight MIMO and one non-MIMO product that Tim Higgins put to the test, with surprising results.. Ixia's IxChariot network peformance evaluation program was used with the test configuration shown in Figure...

Since this essentially wiped the slate clean in terms of being able to compare wireless test results going forward to those from my previous reviews, I also decided to establish new test methodology and add a scoring system.. Ixia's IxChariot network peformance...

traffic loads than the $100-or-so AP on your local retailer's shelf? We did too until we put six 802.11g APs through some pretty heavy load testing, with some surprising results.... All tests used the setup shown in Figure 8. The IxChariot console and first...

the best-case performance, and then connected them into my home's cable TV or phone wiring. I used IxChariot and ran TCP throughput and UDP streaming tests on both devices. Throughput was tested with IxChariot's throughput.scr script with the only change from...

But each connection is a steady stream taking as much bandwidth as the router (and its Internet connection) can provide. Given these requirements and the tools available to me, I chose Ixia's IxChariot as my instrument of router torture because it could handle...

V5's firmware from 1.00.6 to 1.00.9. Since I don't have access to the wide variety of broadband connections out there in the big, wide world, I had to limit my testing to what I could do on a private LAN. So I fired up my trusty copy of IxChariot and started...

required by the content. Figures 6 and 7 illustrate the rule, showing IxChariot plots of a single wireless connection between the "Home" WRT54G and WPC54G client card. Figure 6 starts out with an IxChariot throughput.scr script running TCP with a file size...

understand from the FTP data however, is why the PocketPC based devices with internal radios fared so poorly next to the PalmOS-based Tungsten C. Figure 9 shows IxChariot results for the Axim X30 with internal radio, HP 2210 with a D-Link DCF-650W Compact flash...