“Whole man-weeks have disappeared on this journey, but that’ spar for the course, it seems”
iPerf3 is one of those industry-standard tools for measuring network performance. You run it at each end of a connection and then fire it up to determine how quickly the data gets sent over the wire (or Wi-Fi). It’s been around a while and is very much a known quantity.
The app is usually controlled from a command line, which gives a good indication of how hair-shirt it really is, but the core technology is available on just about every computing platform out there. Some developers have wrapped a graphical user interface around the core code to make it more friendly, but being a keyboard warrior, the command line with its endless switches and options is The One True Way.
Well, most of the time. I use Magic iPerf on Android, which works well despite its somewhat leggy status. On macOS, I’m liking iPerfUtil with its native M1 support and it now supports the new Streams (-P) option too.
A Windows version continues to be an issue. If you Google iPerf, you’re pointed to iperf.fr, which appears to be the quasi-official site for all things iPerf. It has links for just about every platform out there, but on Windows development stalled at version 3.1.3 back in 2016. Not surprising: iPerf 3 does what it does and there hasn’t been much need to change it.
If you go to the downloads section and pull down the Windows 64-bit version, you will get a ZIP file. Inside that is the
