Airaya has a free tool you can download to set up one laptop as server and another as client and measure bandwidth. I used at district to test between IDF and MDF rooms with copper and fiber.
Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > Demand for our GigE surge suppressor has been growing such that I am now > limited by my test station throughput. > > Any ideas on how to test a GigE device go-nogo without buying more big > dollar testers (which I currently use)? > > It needs to be fast and show speeds in both directions. > > Have considered just putting up a GigE switch and plugging the surge > suppressor into two ports and seeing if they light. But that sounds pretty > cheap and dirty. Want to see numbers. A laptop talking to another laptop > with iperf may end up being the solution. Not sure if there are GigE USB > NICS so I could do it all on one laptop or not. > > Any other ideas? >
