How can I test the speed of a LAN? I hope there is something baked into Windows to do this, because I am unable to install any third-party products.
Jul 1, 2014 - By default, windows generates routes that will route packets that are destined to local interfaces to never leave the PC. The only solution I've. How do you test the network speed between two boxes? If you want to test your Ethernet LAN at a lower level you can use Etherate which is a free Linux CLI Ethernet testing tool. Then from your computer ping the first box save the result, ping the other box and do the substraction. Share improve this answer. Answered Oct 17 '10 at 17:16.
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Well you can just look at the network in the control panel and see if the LAN is connected at 10/100/1000 mbit. But that doesn't tell you the whole story. If you want to test the speed between two PCs, you really need a tool to do it. One tool I've used that seems pretty good is 'iperf', it's just a commandline EXE, doesn't require any install. 'ping' will tell you the latency, but not the available bandwidth.
Example usage of iperf:
On one PC run it in 'server' mode:
iperf -s
On another PC run it in 'client' mode, and give it the IP of the first PC:
iperf -c 12.34.56.67
You may need to use larger packet sizes to get the full speed, try adding
mafu-l 64K -w 64K
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You can right-click on the LAN connection and then Check the 'Status'. That will give you the link speed. You can also open a command prompt and run ping.exe to ping other computers on the network.
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If you want to try online, Visit http://www.speedtest.net/
![Test Test](https://dl1.cbsistatic.com/i/2017/07/14/f0b3cc96-eb03-4d63-b0b5-a8aae099b332/2605a946f75009a2827657c9bfd900b5/5588a5af5c320a0e79142f8e11b66774b7761lst116a.jpg)
Here you will find the detail of your LAN bandwidth along with downloading and uploading speed.Downloading Speed is your actual speed.
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