Our office internet typically has about 25-30 computers connected. For an upcoming event, we will have to support about 100 connections, mostly via wireless, for a few days. I'd really like to test that kind of load before the event.
Is there a way to simulate a number of concurrent wireless connections to do some load testing?
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The problem is, as far as I know, one wireless adapter can only connect to one wireless network, at a time. You'll need as many wireless adapters for the extent of the stress testing you want to conduct.
Derek Kurth : That's what I was afraid of. Oh well, thanks!Izzy : Have a LAN party at work, invite all your friends over, tell them to bring wireless adapters, and their iPods, and any other wireless device they have ;)Derek Kurth : That sounds like a good idea whether it helps me load test or not! :)Izzy : Maybe you could even get your work to pay for pizza, in the interests of testing their infrastructure for the "upcoming event". They could even write the cost off to the event budget ;)From Izzy -
You could set up a ping test on each machine with large packets. This would flood the network with traffic and could be used as a simulation for multiple connections. It's not perfect, but it might give you some peace of mind.
ping X.X.X.X -t -l 1024
This will send 1024 byte packets continuously to your server IP.
From Lucille
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