Check The Bandwidth of Network

iperf is a tool for performing network throughput measurements.

1. install iperf on both nodes

arch linux

sudo pacman -S iperf

windows version can be downloaded from http://www.noc.ucf.edu/Tools/Iperf/

2. one node acts as server, the other node would be client
start listening on server side

iperf -s

3. start connecting to server on client side

iperf -c -w 2m server_ip

# -w 2m adjust windows size to 2 mbytes

4. result should appear in a few secs like this

[1924] 0.0-10.0 sec 111 MBytes 92.9 Mbits/sec