Measuring Network Performance: Test Network Throughput, Delay-Latency, Jitter, Transfer Speeds, Packet loss & Reliability. Packet Generation Using Iperf / Jperf

Read our complete guide on measuring LAN, WAN & WiFi network link performance, throughput, Jitter and network latency. Discover your network’s optimum TCP window-size, measure network delay, UDP/TCP packet loss, router and real VPN throughput, WAN connections, Wireless performance between different access points, backbone switch performance and other network devices. Test Cisco against HP or Juniper network equipment performance and discover the real differences.

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