Tamosoft throughput test review pro#

This review originally appeared in PC Pro issue 265 Verdict Small organisations that want a scalable, business-grade wireless network management solution need look no further. In addition, it's elegant from design to implementation. The Linksys LAPAC1750 is one of the best-value AC1750 access points around, and its clustering capabilities performed perfectly during testing. When the master AP was back up again, it rejoined the cluster and reclaimed all management duties in 30 seconds. On our workstation, we measured a pause of 12 seconds before Windows silently reconnected to the next AP in the cluster and carried on. We then disconnected the master AP: within ten seconds, the backup AP took over. We tested this by adding a third AP to the cluster as a slave and ticked the relevant box for it. In order to provide a degree of fault tolerance, you can designate one AP as a backup master, which would take over if the master fails. Real-world speeds were also good: copying a 2GB test file between the workstation and server averaged 55MB/sec.

Tamosoft throughput test review free#

Using the free TamoSoft Throughput Test tool, we measured raw wireless speeds between the workstation and a Windows server on the LAN, and recorded an average throughput of 66.6MB/sec for a close-range connection, dropping slightly to 62MB/sec at 15m.

Tamosoft throughput test review windows 10#

To test wireless performance, we used a Dell Precision Tower 5810 Windows 10 workstation equipped with a Netgear AC1200 adapter. Those you know about can be added to a trusted list, so if a new one pops up unexpectedly, it will be easy to spot. There's also a rogue-AP detection function, which lists all other APs in the vicinity of your cluster. These include a handy scheduler for turning radios on and off at set times, such as weekends upstream and downstream rate limits quality of service and captive portals for guest access. Plenty of other wireless features can also be centrally controlled. You can still access each slave's individual web interface, and view cluster members and connected clients, while standard wireless features are controlled from the master AP.

As soon as each slave was added to the cluster, it immediately inherited all its wireless settings from the master, replacing any pre-existing SSIDs and security schemes.

Tamosoft throughput test review mac#

With this done, we could see all members from the Cluster Details page, along with their MAC and IP addresses. It's worth jotting down these details as they need to be entered when configuring the other APs as slaves.

One AP must be designated as the master, and given a location and a meaningful cluster name. Once this was done, each AP exposed a new Cluster option in the Configuration view. We tried out a triplet of LAPAC1750 business APs dual-band 802.11ac access points with 3x3 MIMO internal aerials, offering speeds of up to 1,300Mbits/sec on the 5GHz radio and 450Mbits/sec on the 2.4GHz radio.Ĭlustering is enabled via a simple firmware upgrade, which can be carried out from each AP's web interface. Up to 16 Linksys APs can be joined into one cluster, the only requirement being that, as usual, they must all be the same model. In other words, you can buy multiple APs and enjoy centralised configuration management and deployment, with a single status view for all of them.