benchmarking a NIC

Hello everyone.

My boss asked me about benchmarking a NIC when we had a system with networking issues a few months back. The problem was actually a bad cat5 cable needing replacement. Though I've still been looking at ways to possibly benchmark NIC's to see if they are going bad.

Currently, I'll just navigate the web, move a large files over the network and ping google -t. I think he was looking to see if the card would have ups and downs performance wise.

 

There is a product available that will give you a benchmarking report on your connection itself, called PassMark.
A description of what it will do can be found here:
http://www.passmark.com/products/pt_advnet.htm
If this sounds like it will give you the information you need, you can get PassMark here:
http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

It has a 30 day trial and the complete program costs $24

 

There is also a benchmarking program for networking that is hosted here at MG.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/ICB_The_Internet_Connection_Benchmark_d152.html
That runs for about the same price.

 

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