A nice APP – WiFiPerf Review

I have been doing a lot of wireless tuning for iPads lately and this app is just want I was looking for. It's missing a few parameters that you can set on a Windows/Mac/Linux box like parallel streams but it is still very useful. I had no problem using jperf3 on windows or iperf3 in a terminal on OSX as the server. A couple reviews mentioned trouble using it. If you have never used iPerf before you may be a little frustrated. It isn't like running a "Ping" app. You have to use two devices, you may need to turn off the windows firewall on a Windows box and iPerf isn't rock solid. There are times it will quit responding on the server and you will have to restart it. But, if you need to do network bandwidth testing iPerf is well worth learning. It will test ANY link type. I have used it on VPN tunnels, MPLS, P2P WAN, server to server on a LAN and now on IOS. Plus you can test switch ports by plugging directly into a switch with two devices. A good test if you supect the switch can't keep up. On a 10Gbe network it was able to generate 8+GBps from a Windows VM on one VMWare host to a Windows VM on another VMWare host.
Review by Rikosintie on WiFiPerf.