Good program for testing LAN speed

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

What the fuck, you shouldn't even need this.

You clearly know what the maximum speed of LAN is. Is that somehow not good enough for you to know?

It'll be somewhere around 10, 11, 56, or 100 Mbps, depending on the hardware. Again, how is that not good enough?

To be fair sometimes a network interface can have considerably lower speed than what it should. But the difference cannot possibly be enough to matter to someone who doesn't know how to test speeds.

Copying a large file is a great way to test the speed. Pinging gives you a quicker answer as well. (From the command line "Ping 192.168.109.2"*, it'll give you the time it took for a network signal to get from your machine to the other and back, giving you an idea of network lag which isn't really shown with the sustained file transfer.

*Use the IP address of the machine you want to ping, the number provided is just an example.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by jsphweid

I make my own cable. I hear that if you make your own, there is a chance that your entire network speed may lower!
Geez!

Joseph

The only time this is the case is with Cat6/Gigabit networks. And the difference you can incurr is relatively minor, and due to putting undue stress on the cable. Also, if you make your cables too long for any network cable you'll start to run into speed issues as frames are lost. A big chunky file transfer is the way to go.

There's nowhere I can't reach.