Test Speed of network?

I'm working with a School who recently put in a gigabit fiber link and they
think there is an issue with the link and that its slower then expected.

I was hoping to attach a few laptops to either end to do some speed/link
tests.

Any Recommendations on software to do the test?

Thanks,
Scott<-

FTP. Get some kind of Shareware FTP server on one end and download a file to
the other. It should give you a pretty accurate representation of the
network speed. You are going to need a pretty big file to take advantage of
gigabit.


"Scott Townsend" <scott-i@.-N0-SPAMplease.enm.com> wrote in message
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> I'm working with a School who recently put in a gigabit fiber link and
> they think there is an issue with the link and that its slower then
> expected.
>
> I was hoping to attach a few laptops to either end to do some speed/link
> tests.
>
> Any Recommendations on software to do the test?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott<-
>

Hi
May be this can Help.
Qcheck by Ixia, http://www.ezlan.net/faq#transfer
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Scott Townsend" <scott-i@.-N0-SPAMplease.enm.com> wrote in message
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> I'm working with a School who recently put in a gigabit fiber link and
> they think there is an issue with the link and that its slower then
> expected.
>
> I was hoping to attach a few laptops to either end to do some speed/link
> tests.
>
> Any Recommendations on software to do the test?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott<-
>

Scott Townsend wrote:

> I'm working with a School who recently put in a gigabit fiber link and
> they think there is an issue with the link and that its slower then
> expected.
>
> I was hoping to attach a few laptops to either end to do some speed/link
> tests.
>
> Any Recommendations on software to do the test?

The method I always used when I did network hardware testing for a living
was to send an extremely large file (like a DVD image) across the network
to another machine with enough space and time it. From there, it's simple
math to figure out the speed.

Thanks! I'll Check it out.


"Jack (MVP-Networking)." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
> May be this can Help.
> Qcheck by Ixia, http://www.ezlan.net/faq#transfer
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "Scott Townsend" <scott-i@.-N0-SPAMplease.enm.com> wrote in message
> news:OMyKPC$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm working with a School who recently put in a gigabit fiber link and
>> they think there is an issue with the link and that its slower then
>> expected.
>>
>> I was hoping to attach a few laptops to either end to do some speed/link
>> tests.
>>
>> Any Recommendations on software to do the test?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott<-
>>
>
>