Need a tool - if you know what i mean

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:38 pm

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.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:32 am

Why not just write a script to ping your machine 1000 times and hook up something like this?

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:09 am

I don't know I just figured someone already had a little gui app out there for this.

Post by **Leisher** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:52 am

From a cmd prompt: ping x.x.x.x -t

Ctrl+c to stop

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:28 am

That gives me averages over amounts of time?

Post by **Leisher** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:02 pm

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?

Edited By Leisher on 1419181391

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:16 pm

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:17 pm

And there should be no appreciable differences in response times. I imagine everything in your house should be 1ms.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:41 pm

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.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:46 pm

Oh shit, you're just going from 5 to 6? Yeah, don't even bother benchmarking.