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Nipper VS iperf

Compare Nipper VS iperf and see what are their differences

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Nipper logo Nipper

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

iperf logo iperf

A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool
  • Nipper Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-08-27
  • iperf Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-17

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

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]

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Nipper and iperf)

Nipper

iperf

Monitoring Tools
20 20%
Monitoring Tools
80% 80
Security
36 36%
Security
64% 64
Log Management
0 0%
Log Management
100% 100
Security Monitoring
100 100%
Security Monitoring
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.

Nipper mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Nipper yet. Tracking of Nipper 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 / 28 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

What are some alternatives?

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

Scapy - Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program.

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

Winsock Packet Editor - WPE Pro is a packet editor.

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

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

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.

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