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Utilites for network diagnostics and benchmarks

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Mucman

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I am just wondering what are some good networking software tools that are considered must haves? I would like to know if I did a good job wiring my house so I want to measure the speeds between my local computers. I am running win2k server on 1 of them the rest are win98. Is ftp a good benchmark? I tried downloading a 124M zip file via ftp from my server and I was getting around 2.35MB ~ 18.8Mbit. I know I probably won't get 100Mbit but I was expecting a little more.

Reminder, this is my house not a huge enterprise. As cool as those enterprise level programs are I need something a little more basic. 🙂
 
That is perfect! Thanks JackMDS! I was going to transfer files and sit there with a stop watch 🙂

So endpoints have to be installed on all the computer that I want to test then? I was hoping to install something on one end, but I guess this does make sense. Even when you physicaly test a cable you have something on both ends.
 
To test the endpoint has to be installed on any computer that you want to evaluate.

It loads at Startup. Unfortunately, it stays there.

What I do?

There is a little free program, called StartUp. It lets you see and manage all the entries in the Win Startup Process. The nice thing about it, you can Check or Uncheck entries without Installing or Uninstalling.

StartUP Page.

So, I left the endpoint on the computers, and UnChecked it with StartUp.

If I need further use of the Qcheck, I check again the endpoint
 
Thanks Jack, that looks like a good tool. I did a loopback test on my computer at work and got a throughput of 88Mbit (it said it might be off because it was so quick). The program looks really neat so far, although a console version would have sufficed. what kind of bandwidth should I expect from a home LAN that is using a DLink 10/100 switch and connect with cat5e? I know it won't read 100Mbit but is 50Mbit too much to expect from that? This will be the first thing I test out when I get home today. I TS'ed to my home computer, but I don't want to open any more ports through Freesco just to use this, so I am not going to try connect from work to home.
 
Thanks for the link! That place looks really informative and a great place to learn about networking!
 
I tested my home LAN and this is the speed I got between my win2k and win98se box :

TCP throughput (1000KB) = 45-50Mbit
UDP throughput (1000KB) = 28Mbit

response time is 1ms

Anything I can do to tweak that?
 
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