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 ...

The final part of this three-part series shows you not only how to disable the firewall using netcat and iperf, but how to test Apposite's new virtual WAN emulator. This is the third and final article ...

First, an overview of the hardware: Router: Some Netgear 4-port model from Comcast (probably only 100Mbps, but all the computers are on the following switch) The server has four 1TB HDDs in a RAIDZ ...

Next, I would check the iperf of each connection to the aformentioned gatech server and note how far this is off from your subscribed bandwidth. You will see problems here if you have packet loss.

Everyone wants a faster network. But before you can do anything to speed up yours, you must ascertain how fast it’s currently going. Yet measuring network speed isn’t as straightforward as you might ...

This blog post references my cover story ‘Home Transportation: Benchmarking Powerline, 802.11, and Ethernet‘ in EDN’s August 2, 2007 edition. It’s one of a series of web addendums to the print writeup ...