Measure the bandwidth between to points

Here is a very useful tool to measure the bandwidth between to points.

http://www.noc.ucf.edu/Tools/Iperf/


Usage Example

On Campus Command Line: iperf -c 10.0.13.68 -w 2m

Off Campus Command Line: iperf -c 132.170.3.31

results should look like this:

------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.0.13.68, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[1924] local (your IP) port 1500 connected with 10.0.13.68 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1924] 0.0-10.0 sec 111 MBytes 92.9 Mbits/sec

You're interested in the red numbers

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