What's a good way to run a point-to-point network speed test over a WAN?

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I want to monitor my WAN speed between two offices, and be able to schedule it to run at certain times of the day.

I guess in its simplest form this is just a point to point copy, but I want to automate it so I can schedule it to run at certain times.

Are there any tools out there? I also wondered about doing this with Powershell.

If you just want to monitor latency, I'd suggest [SmokePing](http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/) for *nix, or [PingMonitor](http://emcosoftware.com/ping-monitor) for Windows. — Chris S, Sep 17 '13 at 14:37

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 14:35

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iperf is a great tool for testing bandwidth. It's natively a *nix application, but it looks like it has been ported to cygwin, so should be able to be run in windows as well.

answered Sep 17 '13 at 14:35

EEAA

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 14:42

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Don't forget PSPing.

It's a command-line tool, which makes it inherently automatable. Does latency and bandwidth tests. Written by the master NT geek.

answered Sep 17 '13 at 14:42

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 17 '13 at 16:36

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Ixia QCheck
PCATTP
SNMP monitoring at the endpoint routers
NetStress
NTttcp
SmokePing

etc. etc.

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answered Sep 17 '13 at 14:50

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What's a good way to run a point-to-point network speed test over a WAN?

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