iperf3

RouterOS General
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Hey there

Is there a way that RouterOS supports iperf3 directly?
I have found BTest under Tools but there seems not to be a client for most OSes, only an .exe file from the mikrotik homepage, which is useless to me.
Is that proprietary?

Cheers

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Hi,

There are public btest servers you can use for the purpose…
Read this:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/public-mikrotik-bandwidth-test-server-s-now-shutdown-as-of-april-1st-2025/94863/1

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Thanks!
I tried those, not getting full speed there and has also only limited usefulness inside a lan and little flexibility.
Is there any issue with iperf3 that i am not aware that mikrotik reinvented the wheel?
btest.exe also did not work inside a vm properly, got like 5kb/s to the router inside a 1G lan, 0 probs with iperf.

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You don’t want to test to/ from router anyway, as you will run into limitations of CPU, etc, so will not gain much. Best is to test “through” the router, and in that case, iperf is a good tool