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Desktop Info VS iperf

Compare Desktop Info VS iperf and see what are their differences

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Desktop Info logo Desktop Info

This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other...

iperf logo iperf

A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool
  • Desktop Info Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-01-24
  • iperf Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-17

Desktop Info videos

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Using Iperf to measure network speed / bandwidth

More videos:

  • Tutorial - How to use iperf to test local network LAN speed in Windows 10
  • Review - [HOWTO] Test My Network Speed?! [iPerf & JPerf]

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Desktop Info and iperf)

Desktop Info

iperf

Monitoring Tools
35 35%
Monitoring Tools
65% 65
Command Line Tools
100 100%
Command Line Tools
0% 0
Log Management
18 18%
Log Management
82% 82
Tool
100 100%
Tool
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, iperf seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Desktop Info mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Desktop Info yet. Tracking of Desktop Info recommendations started around Mar 2021.

iperf mentions (4)

  • Microsoft: Don't Use Iperf3 on Windows
    Just some clarification: IPerf 2 is different from the iperf3 found at https://github.com/esnet/iperf. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Yet Another Bench Script (YABS): evaluate Linux server performance with this simple Bash script and utility
    Network - network throughput (both incoming and outgoing) is tested using iperf3 on several geographically diverse public iperf servers. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Speed testing Visible with a modem
    File transfer using iperf3 over Tailscale. I noticed that the bandwidth to my home computer (on a 500/500 fiber connection) was higher than with speedtest.net. For the first few days I was getting downloads and uploads of 28Mbps (+/- std dev of 6Mbps) and 150ms latency (+/- 35ms). After somewhere around 100GB total transfer (maybe half of that over Tailscale), it is now downloading and uploading at 10Mbps (+/-... Source: over 2 years ago
  • FTP upload speed isn't great
    I can add to this. I have two mini self contained projects to create multiarch static bins of mtr and iperf3 for general usage. Source: about 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Desktop Info and iperf, you can also consider the following products

Conky - Latest commit 262a292 on Dec 7, 2017 brndnmtthws Add missing build dep. Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.

JPerf - This project gives a better UI and new functionalities to the initial JPerf 1.

Bginfo - This fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system.

Wireshark - Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

GKrellM - GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its...

mtr - mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single...

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