If you need to measure network throughput and capacity, I haven’t found a simpler solution than iperf. There isn’t much to say about the operation of iperf — it’s a very simple application in server/client mode.

In short, iperf can be installed on two machines within your network. You’ll run one as a server, and one as a client.

First we need to install iprerf (debian and ubuntu way):
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