James Kehr here with the Microsoft Commercial Support – Windows Networking team. This article will explain why you should not use iPerf3 on Windows for synthetic network benchmarking and testing. Followed by a brief explanation of why you should use ntttcp and ctsTraffic instead. UPDATE (22 April 2024): Various update tags were made throughout the article based on feedback in the comments. Reason
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