| UDP Test Tool |
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| The UDP Test tool is a connection testing tool that is similar to iperf. This |
| tool has been created partially due to limitations in iperf. This tool is |
| designed to test downstream throughput and measures the speed of a connection |
| by sending UDP traffic very quickly to a downstream client and measuring the |
| packet loss and adjusting the send rate accordingly. |
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| There are currently some issues with the UDP Test tool. Right now, it is not |
| able to show similar rates as iperf (using tcp). UDP should be faster than |
| TCP and so presumably the transmit rates of the tool should be higher. Because |
| of this it seems that the UDP Test tool is not impacted significantly by |
| interference. A good alternative is to use iperf with the -i and -t options. |
