How to test local area network speed

To test the link speed between two machines on a local network, a method that is often used is to send a file from one machine to the other using a network file sharing protocol such as SMB , NFS , SSHFS , or rsync over SSH . Unless one of those protocols is already set up on the two computers, this is a very cumbersome way to test network speeds between them. And if the network is faster than one…