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IPerf2 VS iPerf3

Compare IPerf2 VS iPerf3 and see what are their differences

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IPerf2 logo IPerf2

A network traffic tool for measuring TCP and UDP performance with metrics around both throughput and latency.

iPerf3 logo iPerf3

iPerf3 is a simple tool that measures Internet bandwidth.
  • IPerf2 Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-05-20
  • iPerf3 Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-04

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to IPerf2 and iPerf3)

IPerf2

iPerf3

Network & Admin
100 100%
Network & Admin
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
17 17%
Monitoring Tools
83% 83
OS & Utilities
0 0%
OS & Utilities
100% 100
Log Management
24 24%
Log Management
76% 76

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, IPerf2 seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 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.

IPerf2 mentions (3)

  • WAN circuit testing
    I think such a tool is fairly straightforward to develop with iperf 2 as the underlying src/sink. The man page has new features including start times & permit keys. Active, low duty-cycle, low impact telemetry has been a goal. The idea is that someone else would develop a web app and host public servers. As an iperf 2 maintainer, I'm trying to remain arm's length from such products but I do think the industry... Source: over 1 year ago
  • WAN circuit testing
    Iperf 2 can help and has many new tests including one way delay, low duty cycle burst, tcp bouncback, etc. More on the man page. OWD does required clock sync. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Is iPerf test an officially approved RFC 2544 test?
    A bit of a tangent, but there are a lot of new features in iperf 2, much are around latency or one way delay (OWD). Many times these days it's latency that affects the quality of experience to end users. Source: almost 2 years ago

iPerf3 mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of iPerf3 yet. Tracking of iPerf3 recommendations started around Apr 2022.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing IPerf2 and iPerf3, you can also consider the following products

Ostinato - Ostinato is a packet crafter and traffic generator for network engineers. Wireshark in Reverse.

Open Nettest - Open Nettest is a platform for collecting, processing and visualizing data related QoS and QoE.

Nipper - Nipper - Neat Internet Protocol Packet EditoR - is a graphical packet generation tool.

Fping (open source) - fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.

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

NetCrunch Tools - Our free network tools offer ping scanning, SNMP scanning, port and network service scanning, and more.

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