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The steps to routinely (looping) check local to internet performance
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Write-Warning "This code is not meant to be run sequentially, run it in sections following comment instructions" | |
exit | |
<############################################################################## | |
create transfer file | |
##############################################################################> | |
$FilePath = "C:\temp\transfer_file.txt" | |
$DesiredFileSizeKB = 1024 * 7 # 7 MB | |
if (Test-Path $FilePath) { | |
Remove-Item $FilePath | |
} | |
do { | |
"Better living through programming" | | |
Out-File $FilePath -Append | |
} while (( | |
Get-ChildItem $FilePath | | |
Select-Object @{Name = "SizeKB"; Expression = { $_.Length / 1024 }} | | |
Select-Object -ExpandProperty SizeKB) -lt $DesiredFileSizeKB | |
) | |
<############################################################################## | |
create transfer file | |
##############################################################################> | |
# copy the file to a shared and public internet location (I used my blog | |
# to host the file for example) | |
<############################################################################## | |
download file | |
##############################################################################> | |
# DownloadFile is the location of the public file | |
# | |
$DownloadFile = "http://your-file-location/transfer_file.txt" | |
$DestinationFile = "C:\temp\downloaded_file.txt" | |
$OutputFile = "C:\temp\network_test.csv" | |
$Iterations = 10 | |
$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient | |
while ($true) { | |
$Output = | |
for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Iterations; $i++) { | |
$PreDownloadTimeStamp = Get-Date | |
$WebClient.DownloadFile($DownloadFile, $DestinationFile) | |
$PostDownloadTimeStamp = Get-Date | |
$TransferDurationSec = $PostDownloadTimeStamp.Subtract($PreDownloadTimeStamp).TotalSeconds | |
if (Test-Path $DestinationFile) { | |
$TransferSizeBytes = Get-ChildItem $DestinationFile | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Length | |
} | |
else { | |
$TransferSizeBytes = 0 | |
} | |
$TransferSizeMb = $TransferSizeBytes / 1024 / 1024 * 8 | |
$TransferThroughput = $TransferSizeMb / $TransferDurationSec | |
$i | | |
Select-Object @{Name = "CurrentDateTime"; Expression = { Get-Date }}, | |
@{Name = "Iteration"; Expression = { $_ }}, | |
@{Name = "Throughput"; Expression = { $TransferThroughput }} | |
} | |
$OutputAggregated = | |
$Output | | |
Measure-Object -Average Throughput | | |
Select-Object @{Name = "CurrentDateTime"; Expression = { Get-Date }}, | |
@{Name = "ThroughputMbps"; Expression = { $_.Average }} | |
$OutputAggregated | |
$OutputAggregated | Export-Csv $OutputFile -NoTypeInformation -Append | |
Start-Sleep -Seconds 60 | |
} |
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