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best way to test speed of network device? - mattkime - 03-04-2010
i'd like to do some speed tests against my network devices, particularly my Asus RT-N16 router which features drive sharing.
advice on which tool to use?
Re: best way to test speed of network device? - guitarist - 03-04-2010
Tennis shoes and a Stopwatch?
Re: best way to test speed of network device? - Wailer - 03-04-2010
Tomato real time bandwidth monitor?
There are lots of freeware applications which will track/graph data rates through the network ports.
Start giving us some feedback about that N-based gigabit bad boy!
Re: best way to test speed of network device? - mattkime - 03-04-2010
>>Start giving us some feedback about that N-based gigabit bad boy!
Installed it last night and so far it seems stable. I'm going to run it for a week with the stock firmware before installing dd-wrt so i'll be certain if dd-wrt is causing problems.
Re: best way to test speed of network device? - Wailer - 03-04-2010
Ah...so that's why you can't use tomato (or dd-wrt's) bandwidth monitoring.
If you have a mac with 2 ethernet ports, you can use ipnetrouter like a flowmeter between the router and a computer.
Or you can hook up a router with tomato on it, configure it like a switch, and place it between 2 connections.