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Three Reasons Why You Should Not Use iPerf3 on Windows

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JamesKehr
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Apr 18, 2024
James Kehr here with the Microsoft Commercial Support – Windows Networking team. This article will explain why you should not use iPerf3 on Windows for synthetic network benchmarking and testing.  Fo...
Updated Apr 22, 2024
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May 21, 2024

The Microsoft networking team might want to get up to speed with iperf 2 as well if MSFT customers care about latency and application responsiveness. Capacity measurements aren't sufficient to qualify a network.