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Re: Proving Gig Speed


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:52:27 +0200



On 16/Jul/18 20:17, Matt Erculiani wrote:

We use Iperf3 for customers that complain about throughput, it's
relatively low overhead compared to the Ookla HTML5 client. Same
scenario as you, we have the tech hook up their laptop to the
customer's drop and perform testing. I suspect your antivirus may be
attempting to perform real-time inspection on the http(s) traffic,
which would crush the little laptop CPU for sure.

But iPerf doesn't paint pretty pictures at the end of the test that I
can brag to my friends with :-)...

Mark.


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