Typically, your user sends network throughput problems reports as they see problem with their applications such as:

[a] FTP Transfer

[b] NFS Performance

[c] HTTP / SMTP / POP3 etc

As a sys admin you should able confirm the throughput problem. iperf is the tool you are looking to find out:

a) Network throughput problem

b) Packet loss problem

c) Datagram loss

d) Delay jitter

From the man page:

iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics.

iperf works on client / server model. You need to install iperf on both client computer and server computer to measure network performance between two nodes.

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