LAN Test

[eyoungren]

Was poking around in other areas of MacRumors today and ran across Helios LAN Test, which is an app to test the speed of your network.

Ordinarily I wouldn't bring it up, but I know a bunch of people around here are in to benchmarking AND OS9.

And Helios has LAN Test for OS9.

https://www.helios.de/web/EN/products/LanTest.html

Log in to their server (the details are farther down the page), open the LAN Test folder and you'll find the folder for the OS9 app.

 

[AphoticD]

Have you benchmarked your network? Are you primarily setup on gigabit now?

I cut my physical network down to just 3 1000bT Macs (iMac 2009, MP 2008 and a G5), along with a 100bT Mac mini running off a 5-port gigabit switch. Everything else is setup to run wireless.

It would be interesting to benchmark performance between OS 9 and several OS X iterations. My gut feeling would be that performance would increase with each version. But Leopard overhead was apparent with disk benchmarks (Xbench), so I wonder if there is an impact here also (compared to Tiger).

 

[eyoungren]

Have you benchmarked your network? Are you primarily setup on gigabit now?

I cut my physical network down to just 3 1000bT Macs (iMac 2009, MP 2008 and a G5), along with a 100bT Mac mini running off a 5-port gigabit switch. Everything else is setup to run wireless.

It would be interesting to benchmark performance between OS 9 and several OS X iterations. My gut feeling would be that performance would increase with each version. But Leopard overhead was apparent with disk benchmarks (Xbench), so I wonder if there is an impact here also (compared to Tiger).

I've run it once on my MBP just to test it. But my MBP is on WiFi so I wasn't really gauging things.

Probably run some tests on the Quad and the 2.3DC later (both with dual 1000 connections).

 

[AphoticD]

I've run it once on my MBP just to test it. But my MBP is on WiFi so I wasn't really gauging things.

Probably run some tests on the Quad and the 2.3DC later (both with dual 1000 connections).

Do the G5s support link aggregation like that? (802.3ad)

If so then they could theoretically push around 2Gb/sec of data - although that would be higher than the SATA 1.5Gb throughput.

 

[eyoungren]

Do the G5s support link aggregation like that? (802.3ad)

If so then they could theoretically push around 2Gb/sec of data - although that would be higher than the SATA 1.5Gb throughput.

Alas, no. I've tried. And they will bond, but the connection drops and no matter what I do it shows as offline. I believe the problem is that my router needs to support this somehow. But it hasn't been anything I've been willing to track down.