![]() Next download and extract the iperf source code to C:\cygwin\iperf-2.0.5, 7-zip works well for extracting tar and gzip files in Windows. You should have a shortcut to Cygwin on your desktop when the installation is finished. You can use the default install options but when you reach the package selection screen click on ‘Devel’ so that ‘Default’ changes to ‘Install’, this will install all of the development tools you will need. To get started you will need to download and run setup. Although your Linux apps will have to be recompiled from source before they will run in the Cygwin environment. You’ll need to copy iperf.exe and also the 3 cygwin DLL files included in the zip archive into your system in order for it to work.Ĭygwin is basically a Linux emulation environment for Windows. You can download iperf version 2.0.5 for Windows that I compiled from source or continue reading if you want to learn how to compile your own copy. There are some older versions of iperf compiled for Windows available on the web but I couldn’t find a working link for iperf version 2.0.5 so I decided to try compiling it using Cygwin and it worked! ![]() It can generate TCP or UDP data streams for measuring network throughput and can also be used for testing network latency and jitter. Iperf is a very versatile open source program that can be used for network performance testing.
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