[CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

Tue Jun 15 09:24:17 UTC 2010
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

> Dear All
> I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data rate
> speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that can
> measure data speed on one specific Ethernet connection when transferring
> large size files through WiFi connection?
> Thank you

rpmforge provides iperf

And there is a nice Java GUI available: jperf

http://www.nwlab.net/know-how/JPerf/

Alexander