I'm setting up a new home network, and I want to test the various connection speeds I'm getting, from different setups. Specifically, I want to know how the connection from a device to the router varies when I use WiFi, Ethernet and Powerline.
Obviously, which of those I use won't change the connection between the router and the internet ... but I want to know what connection speeds I'm getting between the device and the router. My internet connection isn't very stable, so I don't want to just test the internet speed from the devices since that won't be a stable baseline. Also it won't tell me whether the device-router connection is close to being a limitting factor or not.
I'm an experienced full-stack software developer, but not a network specialist. What are the best tools / methods for me to do this?
My ideal tool would look a lot like the Ookla SpeedTest app, but would show me a network map and ask me which other device on the network I wanted to test the connection to. #optimism
The devices I have available to perform this testing are:
- 2 x Windows 10 Laptops.
- 1 x Windows 10 Desktop.
- 4 x iOS phones/tablets.
I don't know a huge amount about my router; it's a ZYXEL VMG8324-B10A, running its default software. I can connect to it over telnet but I don't actually know anything about telnet other than "it's a thing that you can use to talk to your router on a console".
