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iperf VS Nipper

Compare iperf VS Nipper and see what are their differences

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iperf logo iperf

A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool

Nipper logo Nipper

Nipper - Neat Internet Protocol Packet EditoR - is a graphical packet generation tool.
  • iperf Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-17
  • Nipper Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-08-27

iperf 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]

Nipper videos

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Fly Fishing Nippers Showdown: Comparison & Review

More videos:

  • Review - Gundam Nipper Comparison | Nipper Showdown!!
  • Review - Gundam Nipper Comparison 2020 | Nipper Showdown!! | Tool Review

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to iperf and Nipper)

iperf

Nipper

Monitoring Tools
80 80%
Monitoring Tools
20% 20
Log Management
100 100%
Log Management
0% 0
Security
62 62%
Security
38% 38
Network & Admin
80 80%
Network & Admin
20% 20

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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.

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 / 12 days 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: about 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: almost 3 years ago

Nipper mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Scapy - Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program.

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

Winsock Packet Editor - WPE Pro is a packet editor.

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.

packeth - packeth is GUI and CLI packet generator tool for ethernet.

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