Quickly discovering the speed between two Linux servers can often be a chore of copying large files around. There is a better way with iperf. iperf can be used to quickly setup a server and client process on two Linux servers and report the max network throughput between them. Server Run the following command on the server machine: iperf -s -i 10 -s - Create a server that will listen on TCP 5001. -i 10 - Print a speed report every 10 seconds. Client On the client run the following command: