Wireless network speed utility?

[ike2010]

Does anyone know of a utility that will test/show my current wirless network speed? I have a D-Link Super G router/card and would like to know my actual speed. The only information I have now is the connection status in my Wireless Connection with the Speed 108 Mbps and the green vertical bars representing signal strenght. I would like to know that actual speed in Mbps/MBps. The 108 Mbps it shows is just what it is capable of and not the true speed at any moment. Thanks.


p.s. My wireless card came with software that shows this but it won't work on my computer. Details are too long to get into here. I just want another app. There has to be an open-source app that will do this.

 

[PCHPlayer]

why not just use perfmon?

 

[JackMDS]

Transfer 10MB file measure the time and compute.

A good SuperG "Speed" is 40Mb/sec. which is 5MB/sec. It should take few seconds to transfer the file.

 

[ike2010]

My Super G is 108 Mbps. I know what the rated speed is. This tells me nothing about real world perfmance though. And as far as perfmon is concerned, I have many services disabled on my machine, so perfmon doesn't exactly work properly. There has to be a simple utility that will monitor the actual transfer speeds on a wireless network.

 

[JackMDS]

OK Once More!

108Mb/sec. is the "Speed" that the Hardware is capable of in its circuitry.

In the real world a Good SuperG connection will work "pushing info" at about 40Mb/sec.

40Mb/sec. should allow a transfer as indicating in my previous post.

If you do not have two computers and thus the Wireless is only used for Internet purposes, it hard to find the actual capability of your Wireless connection since the Internet is much bellow 40Mb/sec. Speed.

This page has info that will put the Speed thing in perspective: Wireless What Should I Get?

:sun:

 

[ktwebb]

Wireless or wired. Makes no difference. If you use a utility, say Qcheck, to gauge your wired network speeds, then use that on your wireless clients. Google Qcheck or just google LAN throughput utility.