How to measure WiFi performance from a Mikrotik AP to a Mac?

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Is there a way to measure and track performance from MikroTik AP to a Mac computer?

I need to do some surveying; it would be great if there is a tool on mac to utilize Speed Test that is native from mac?

Thanks!

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You can use the iperf tool on two PCs attached to your router/switch and then do some calcs…

If you have 2 MikroTik devices then you could use other methods, like:
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Tools/Bandwidth_Test
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Tools/Traffic_Generator
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Tools/Speed_Test

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Thanks. I suppose I would have to run MikrotTik software in a virtual machine to use those.

I also found Windows application, btest.exe, so I have run that under Windows VM on a mac. It seems to work fine, tho I will try to port it to wine.

Thanks

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Testing with the built in tools should not be used a true measure of performance as it uses the cpu for both the test and connectivity.

Only use iperf (or similar) between 2 capable PCs as a true measure of performance. Connect the 2 PCs directly and test first to see what they are capable of.

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I am aware that built in testing is limited, but I need to asses general WiFi performance, and it would be quite hard to set up PC-PC performance test on a location where I don’t have any PCs and need to assess signal quality.

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Thanks on noting iperf. I set up a second laptop as an iperf3 server.

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