It may surprise you to learn that more bandwidth does not necessarily mean higher effective WAN throughput. If you transfer a lot of data over a high-capacity WAN, we bet you are not getting the ...

IOPS, latency and throughput/bandwidth are all interconnected. IOPS = (Throughput / Block Size) * 1024 Throughput in MBps = (IOPS * Block Size) / 1024 I understand how to convert IOPS to throughput ...

I recently sat through a presentation where an analyst said that 802.11n wouldn’t be that successful because it offers on the order of 100Mbit/sec., and “no one needs that kind of performance.” I ...

There was an interesting discussion over in one of the Cisco forums on how to calculate your WAN speed. Those of you who read my last post know that packet loss, latency, and bandwidth all play into ...

While the test and measurement (T&M) sector of the electronics industry doesn’t experience the rapid-fire advances of other technologies, it still does a good job year to year. With its steady ...

I have a customer who just installed a 100Mb private WAN connection from a remote office. He has a Cisco 1841 running 12.4 at the remote end and a Cisco 3945 running 15.x on the other end. Is there a ...

iperf3 is a network throughput tool used to measure the performance of the network your Mac is using. Here's how to use it in the macOS Terminal app. iperf is a UNIX memory, network throughput, and ...