topic RE: Wireless throughput test in ExtremeWireless (WiNG)

Wireless throughput test

Son_Nguyen2 — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:42:00 GMT

Hi community,

Could anyone let me know how to test the throughput of an Access point at a specific location.
I know that it depends on the signal strength but can not find the way to test it.

Thank in advance.

RE: Wireless throughput test

Ronald_Dvorak — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:27:00 GMT

If used iperf in the past for such tests....

https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tip/Measure-wireless-network-performance-using-testing-tool-...

RE: Wireless throughput test

ckelly — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:47:00 GMT

Yep, there are various tools out there to do these tests. Easiest (free-est) is setting up an iPerf test environment. Too much detail to go into here though to describe the setup.

RE: Wireless throughput test

Gareth_Mitchell — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:47:00 GMT

Hi

You might find this article useful: https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/How_To/How-do-I-measure-the-wireless-performance-of-a-client-on-an-access-point-and-what-factors-might-impact-performance

If you're using ExtremeWireless AP's then they have an iperf server built in: https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/Q_A/Can-the-IdentiFi-access-points-be-used-as-iperf-servers

-Gareth

RE: Wireless throughput test

Rey_Juan_Carlos — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:47:00 GMT

Hi Gareth,
we have C5210 with v.10.41.10.014 and APs 38xx/39xx with same version, but we don't have iperf inside APs:

/usr/bin
M90# ls
dbclient dropbearkey iked pmap rpcapd sftp-server vmstat
dropbear dropbearmulti ntpclient ps2 scp utcpdump

M90# iperf3
-sh: iperf3: not found

Any Idea??

Thanks a lot

RE: Wireless throughput test

Ronald_Dvorak — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:47:00 GMT

I'd only see it on my 3912 & 3915 but not on 3705, 3825, 3801 (no other APs tested).

So for me it look like that it's only included in the 39xx series.

RE: Wireless throughput test

Rey_Juan_Carlos — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:47:00 GMT

Thanks Ronald,
AP 3912 - ok.
AP 3965 -not.
AP 3935 -ok.

RE: Wireless throughput test

Son_Nguyen2 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:47:00 GMT

Thank everyone so much!