I often work from home and wanted to see how good the connection was between the two points. I can speed test both locations of course, but that isn't necessarily representative of the actual throughput between the two points.
Given the different ISP's and service speeds, I imagine I'd get different results depending on which end I test from. One connection has 3x the upload speed making it the better server end I believe.
The results of a test like this test would be useful and interesting for determining how I might configure network services.
22 Answers
- Setup an FTP server on the end points.
- Setup an FTP client on the other end(s).
- Use FTP to transfer a large(ish) test file in each direction (do upload and download tests on both ends).
- Do it a few times to get an average time/speed.
- Repeat after making configuration changes.
Recommended FTP Server/Client: FileZilla
Perhaps check out these related questions for some ideas as well:
5iperf3 seems good. It works in linux:
sudo apt-get install iperf
On one computer, you run iperf -s and on the other computer you run iperf -c <first computer hostname>
For a Windows version, try iperf2:
