good network bandwidth speed test?

[t0mmyr]

so i came here to ask for recommendation of a freeware utility that would help me see how fast a network line was, i re-terminated some existing cable in our office thats ran to our server room and want to test the quality of the cable and see if it even supports gigabit, i'd like to compare speed tests from this port vs a cat6 port we have in the same office...any ideas?

 

[Ranma_Sao]

so i came here to ask for recommendation of a freeware utility that would help me see how fast a network line was, i re-terminated some existing cable in our office thats ran to our server room and want to test the quality of the cable and see if it even supports gigabit, i'd like to compare speed tests from this port vs a cat6 port we have in the same office...any ideas?

Copy a bunch of files to C:\test
robocopy C:\test \\server\test
it will tell you the transfer rate at the end.

Hell, taskmgr or perfmon will also show the traffic rates as well.

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[Fint]

use iperf. It only tests the network, and not the hard drives (coping files around is limited by your hard drives, most of the time)

 

[t0mmyr]

'robocopy' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

 

[Ranma_Sao]

'robocopy' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Is this XP?
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[t0mmyr]

i found the app on msdn, wasnt installed on my xp machine, worked ok