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GenieACS VS iperf

Compare GenieACS VS iperf and see what are their differences

GenieACS logo GenieACS

A fast and lightweight TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS)

iperf logo iperf

A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool
  • GenieACS Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-07-30
  • iperf Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-17

GenieACS videos

Web portal for basic router config using TR069 and GenieACS

More videos:

  • Review - Can not install GenieACS v1.1.3 on Ubuntu 16 04 5

iperf videos

Using Iperf to measure network speed / bandwidth

More videos:

  • Tutorial - How to use iperf to test local network LAN speed in Windows 10
  • Review - [HOWTO] Test My Network Speed?! [iPerf & JPerf]

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GenieACS and iperf)
Network Automation
100 100%
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
0 0%
100% 100
Product Deployment
100 100%
0% 0
Log Management
0 0%
100% 100

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, iperf seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

GenieACS mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of GenieACS yet. Tracking of GenieACS recommendations started around Mar 2021.

iperf mentions (4)

  • Microsoft: Don't Use Iperf3 on Windows
    Just some clarification: IPerf 2 is different from the iperf3 found at https://github.com/esnet/iperf. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • Yet Another Bench Script (YABS): evaluate Linux server performance with this simple Bash script and utility
    Network - network throughput (both incoming and outgoing) is tested using iperf3 on several geographically diverse public iperf servers. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Speed testing Visible with a modem
    File transfer using iperf3 over Tailscale. I noticed that the bandwidth to my home computer (on a 500/500 fiber connection) was higher than with speedtest.net. For the first few days I was getting downloads and uploads of 28Mbps (+/- std dev of 6Mbps) and 150ms latency (+/- 35ms). After somewhere around 100GB total transfer (maybe half of that over Tailscale), it is now downloading and uploading at 10Mbps (+/-... Source: about 2 years ago
  • FTP upload speed isn't great
    I can add to this. I have two mini self contained projects to create multiarch static bins of mtr and iperf3 for general usage. Source: almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GenieACS and iperf, you can also consider the following products

Unimus - Unimus is a Network Automation and Configuration management (NCM) solution designed for fast deployment network-wide and ease of use. Unimus does not require learning any abstraction or templating languages, and does not require any coding skills.

JPerf - This project gives a better UI and new functionalities to the initial JPerf 1.

Oxidized - configuration backup software (IOS, JunOS) - silly attempt at rancid

Wireshark - Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

RANCID - RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ.

mtr - mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single...