I tried to run an iperf test between two windows 7 laptops with one hosting a ad-hoc network. Specifically I wanted to see whether I could see a visible difference in throughput between the built in PCI card and a USB wifi adapter.
Unfortunately under both conditions I managed to see a total speed of 2.5 Mbps only.
Is Windows throttling my UDP bandwidth in some way or is iperf 2 not compatible with Windows 7?
I tested on a windows 7 to windows 10 PC as well and saw the same issue.
A wireshark trace shows almost no retries and most of the packets appear to be using 58.5 and above n rates.
However it appeared that data was being sent in bursts
This image shows the graph of packets sent
I couldn't find any information on this. I will try using iperf 3 in the meantime and also test the performace via a standard AP and update this question.
This is a screenshot of the cmd prompt Thanks in Advance!
Update: Iperf3 showed much higher speeds. 60 Mbps or so. I'll probably need to read up on the differences between the two softwares. I don't really understand why this difference exists.
