On Fri, 2015-11-13 at 13:25 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
Is there something in Fedora that I might use to determine the maximum speed the network card of my computer can attain on Internet? I am thinking about wired Internet and not about wireless Internet.
Thanks in advance,
You might need to explain the reason for your request since, it may change the answer.
As an example, my computer has a GigE port that runs to a 100Mbit simple switch before getting to anything else. So I would be limited to a theoretical maximum of 100Mbit but I might want to know how fast I can transfer files to/from another computer in my LAN. The bottleneck here could be the switch, my NIC, the other computers NIC, OS limits, firewall slowdowns etc.
So, for me I would really want to test an actual file transfer using a number of setups. Depending on each computer I could try Samba, FTP, SCP. I might run a wire to bypass the switch. I might try with firewalls and antivirus disabled.
All this will also give me some clue on how fast I could run if I was able to get a fiber connection, to let me know if my system would be a serious limit to getting the full 1G of true fiber. Obviously the switch would have to be upgraded in my case.