Measuring the actual amount of data that can be transferred.
Measuring the effective communication speed or data transfer rate. There's often a gap between a link's theoretical maximum speed (bandwidth) and the actual speed achieved, so the two are evaluated separately. Measuring over TCP is affected by window size and latency, so tools that measure over UDP (such as iperf) are sometimes used instead to see the raw performance of the link itself.
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