Hi all, i'm hoping you can help me with a quick but reliable way of setting up my home network. I currently have 3 options to connect gaming PC to router - wireless, homeplug or wired. I've been using wireless without any noticeable problems but since i have other options I may as well test them - i've heard homeplug can be unreliable in old terraced houses (plus being an old house it doesn't have many sockets) but a permanent wired connection will require taking up carpets/floorboards and making a hole in the floor since my master socket/router is directly below my pc. first and foremost though, what's the best way of testing home network speeds without relying on broadband - i have a NAS that's usually plugged into the router i can use to copy large files to PC to test overall speed but i'm more concerned with avoiding lag/latency/loss while gaming - what tools or command lines can reliably test this between pc and router ? cheers for any suggestions !
Ping your router from the cmd prompt. just type ping 192.168.xxx.xxx in your cmd prompt where the xxx.xxx is your router ip.
cheers, had already done this but is there a more sustained way of testing as the pings on wifi are all over the shop while the homeplug seems a little slower on average but consistent - it's hard to take anything useful away from it this way
You can set it to ping continuously with ping xxx -t also save the results to a files with ping xxx -t >c:\ping.csv (pick your own save directory) Optionally in powershell use this, Test-Connection -Count 9999 -ComputerName 192.168.xxx.xxx| Format-Table @{Name='TimeStamp';Expression={Get-Date}},Address,Ping | tee -file C:\pingtest.txt
Download and run WinMTR. Does the same as the above script but in a handy GUI. You can export the results to CSV if you want
