Many companies are upgrading their wireless networks to 802.11n for better throughput, reach, and reliability, but getting a handle on your wireless LAN's (WLAN's) performance is important to ensure ...

We asked our bloggers to give us a list of the free or nearly free network tools they love. They had tons of them, ranging from ways to track network device configurations to ways to keep data synched ...

Testing a wired network interface’s performance is straightforward and without too much hassle. For this review, I’ve chosen PassMark’s advanced network test and Jperf/Iperf. The combination gives me ...

We all know that IT budgets are constrained and we are challenged to do more with less and “working smarter not harder.” IT departments increasingly rely on open-source to help them get things ...

Scott Reeves demonstrates the use of iperf, which provides basic information on throughput, packet loss, and jitter to help you troubleshoot UDP and TCP issues. There are a few tools available to ...

At the time of our testing, there were no wireless 802.11ac client devices or adapters with support for 160MHz channels. Earlier last month, Intel silently introduced its 5th-generation Wireless-AC ...

Page 3: Netgear Nighthawk AX8 (RAX80): Setup And Admin Interface Page 5: Netgear Nighthawk AX8 (RAX80): Final Thoughts There are unique challenges associated with testing wireless performance, ones ...

As followup to my post-CES powerline networking ‘State Of The Union’ summary, I wanted to let y’all know that my next cover story, in EDN’s June 23 edition, will be a hands-on piece devoted to the ...

Jperf/Iperf Network Test JPerf is a simple performance and scalability testing framework for Java. Think of it as JUnit for performance tests. JPerf can be used programmatically or from the command ...