

Start a packet capture (preferably without capture filters, just in case we miss some traffic) and start the download (or the service you are testing) Of course, this will test HTTP bandwidth, but since wireshark can sniff any protocol, you can use anything you want for testing.Ģ. Open a web-browser and navigate to a site from where you can download large iso images. In this quick article we explore three different ways of measuring the bandwidthġ. Wireshark has several ways of showing the bandwidth being used, each method displays the information with different granularity / clarity. But when it comes to granularity and detail, almost nothing beats wireshark. There are of course several ways of measuring bandwidth usage from a particular PC. Update: For easy bandwidth visualization from packet captures, check out a web-based pcap parser we wrote:
