iperf3 Server and Client
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iperf3 is useful for testing the network throughput
of your local network. It can help to indicate network bandwidth
of individual nodes on your LAN. Do you have one computer that
seems perpetually slow? Then iperf3 may be able to
confirm this potential issue.
A WAN speedtest service like Google’s will not necessarily indicate the speed of individual nodes on your LAN. Rather, it is better suited to testing the throughput from your home to the public Internet.
Install iperf3 on both the server and client. On
Ubuntu you may need to
enable the universe repository.
sudo apt-get install iperf3
Create a service at
/etc/systemd/system/iperf3.service that will run the
server.
[Unit]
Description=iperf3
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/iperf3 --server
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Enable the service.
sudo systemctl enable iperf3
Start the service.
sudo systemctl start iperf3
Verify that the service is running.
sudo systemctl status iperf3
Note the IP address of the server.
ip addr
Note, you must replace the IP address below with the IP address of
your iperf3 server.
Client download test.
iperf3 \
--reverse \
--format m \
--version4 \
--client 192.168.1.143
Client upload test.
iperf3 \
--format m \
--version4 \
--client 192.168.1.143