Welcome in this video I'm going to talk about installing iperf3 on a Mac iperf3 is a
command-line tool you can use to test network performance
So to get started I'll look for
iperf3
the website and
you'll come across this iperf.fr/iperf-download.php
so I'll open up that one or you can just go to the
main site but I'll go right to the download page and
there there are versions of this for all
System so I mean you have Windows Android this one I'm just going to be setting it up on a Mac
So I'll go down here to Mac Apple Mac OS Intel 64
bit which is what I'm using and I'll click on the latest version and
that will download to
my download folder and I'll double click on the zip to open it and
I have this iperf3
so now I'll go to my terminal and
I have a terminal up on another machine that already has iperf on it but on this local computer I'll type cd downloads
To get to the download folder I type ls I'll see iperf is here and if I type
iperf3 it probably won't it would well okay that ran because I already have iperf installed but I want to run the one in
Download so I'll type dot slash
Iperf through and that will run it
So, I have Mac ports on this computer and I have iperf installed on that but I'm showing you how to do it without installing
Mac ports or homebrew or any of those so
so, I have so what I have here is
Going to clear this here
so on the left I'm as in my local machine on the right is a
other machine on the network which has iperf on it
all on the other machine I'll type iperf3 -s and this will set a server up so I'll hit enter
and then on the left I will
actually I'm going to take a step back
What you'll need to know is the IP address of the server so I'll type ifconfig
Then I'll type the grep and I'll just type 192, which is part of my network so I know that i'm 192 168
7.180
so let me get back
So when I'm running this server I want to go over to my local machine type iperf3
-c and then type the IP address in of that server
Okay and then when I hit enter it will connect them up and it will do a test and there are all sorts of
Flags on here you can use you can google those and look them up yourself to do different types of tests
I'm just going over the basics to get you started so
so here we, did a test it said it was you know around 200 megabits per second 212 megabits per
second and this is over a
Wi-Fi connection
so you can
also
Something you can do it is to test it if you don't have another machine right away is
you can run iperf in one window with s
Okay and then you can connect to your own machine so
I'll type iperf3 and I'll type -c and I'll type
127.0.0.1
That's what's called the loopback address so that's your own machine so I'll hit enter here and
it will run the test and you'll see
You get it's getting like 30 gigabits per second because it's not really going over a network connection
So, so that's the basics of setting up iperf3 on a Mac and
After this I'll make another video on setting it up on a Synology NAS
so you can connect from your Mac to this Synology NAS and
Test your network speed so if you have any questions please leave them in the comments if you like this video
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