Local Area Network Speed Test

Network administrators and home network users need to check the speed of the local area network during installation but also from time to time to make sure that the speed matches the expected speed of the lan. This is important for a variety of reasons including overal network performance and discovering slow network nodes that can have a impact on services.

LAN Speed Test is a portable software program to test the speed of a local area network. The program will display the name and IP address of the computer that is it running on. Tests are started with a click on the Start Test button. This will open a file browser to select a folder the data should be read from and written to. This should be on a different computer system so that the actual lan speed is tested.

The program will ask for a file size of the file that will be written and read in the second step of the lan speed test configuration. It will then write the file to the target location, clear the Windows file cache, read the file back, clear the cache a second time, delete the file and display the results of the speed test.

The results can be printed but not exported to a file. Lan Speed Test is available from the developer’s website. It is compatible with all Microsoft operating systems including Windows 7 (not sure about 64-bit though).

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Tags: lan, lan speed test, local area network, network, portable software, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

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2 Responses to “Local Area Network Speed Test”

1. Rarst says:

   August 27, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   Interesting one. There are surprisingly few tools that measure LAN speeds, and it’s even harder to do it unobtrusively. I ended up with scary mashup of remote console and iperf for my needs.

   Will try this one, curious if it will work with admin shares for target.

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