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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:38 pm
by GORDON
Is ther any cheap, easy little tool that will let me ping an IP on my LAN a thousand times or so and give me stats on the response times?
I am about to replace all the patch cables in the house with Cat6 and I am curious about what, if any, speed change there will be.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:32 am
by Malcolm
Why not just write a script to ping your machine 1000 times and hook up something like this?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:09 am
by GORDON
I don't know I just figured someone already had a little gui app out there for this.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:52 am
by Leisher
From a cmd prompt: ping x.x.x.x -t
Ctrl+c to stop
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:28 am
by GORDON
That gives me averages over amounts of time?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:02 pm
by Leisher
If you're looking for automated reports, no. If you want to visually take a peek at the results every now and then, yes.
Also, do you have GB NICs?
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:16 pm
by TheCatt
You could do that command, and add "> results.txt" (without quotes) which will pipe the results to a text file.
Then open it in Excel, and do a data to columns (delimited on = and <space>, strip out the ms) , and average the column.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:17 pm
by TheCatt
And there should be no appreciable differences in response times. I imagine everything in your house should be 1ms.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:41 pm
by Cakedaddy
What Catt said. 1000mbs is 1000mbs whether it's on Cat5e or Cat6. The only difference would be fewer dropped packets due to some electrical interference between your wall and PC or patch panel and switch. Cat6 is more resistant to that stuff than Cat5e.
This test is not worth your time or effort.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:46 pm
by Malcolm
Oh shit, you're just going from 5 to 6? Yeah, don't even bother benchmarking.