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

Question

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.

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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.

Comments

[Philip]

If you just want to monitor latency, I'd suggest SmokePing for *nix, or PingMonitor for Windows.