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Are people interested in multi-client stress tests on routers? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by SamB@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I asked this same question on Reddit and I got zero engagement, so perhaps Lemmy has people that care more about their hardware.

I recently decided to use some of the tools provided by Mr Salter (netburn) and I have to ask the community if you want to see multi-client stress tests (4K streaming, VoIP, web browsing) used on a wireless router or if the single-client iperf tests are good enough. Bear in mind that pretty much all publications that still test their devices (most don't) rely on the single-client test method.

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[–] mouse@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I run iPerf tests I almost always use multiple clients because of exactly what another comment said, it's more realistic and a better representation.

[–] SamB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you basically spawn multiple instances of iperf3 and then connect all clients to a single server (using the same port?) What do you think about checking the latency experienced at the client level when various tests are running at the same time?

[–] mouse@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I spawn multiple instance of iperf3. Checking the latency would be a very useful metric, it should give a good result of what the connection will be like under load.