User Manual

Throughput

The throughput example (located in the Adafruit_WICED_Arduino/examples/WiFi folder) uses AdafruitTCP to test the

TCP throughput between the WICED Feather and another device running 'netcat', which simply listens for incoming

TCP data on the specified port.

Setup

Set your AP details using the WLAN_SSID and WLAN_PASS flags, setting them to the values used by you own access

point:

You also need to set the IP address and port of the server you will be connecting to (the machine where you will be

running netcat):

Running Netcat

Before using this sketch you will need to start netcat and tell it to start listening on the pre-determined port, which can

be done with the following command:

Depending on the version of netcat you are using, you may or may not seeing any feedback right away, but once

netcat starts any incoming characters received will be echoed back to the command line, as shown in the example

below:

To stop netcat (once the test is complete) simply hit CTRL+C.

Compile and Flash

You can then compile and flash your sketch to the WICED Feather using the 'Download' arrow icon at the top of the

#define WLAN_SSID "YOUR SSID HERE"

#define WLAN_PASS "YOUR SSID KEY HERE"

// your local PC's IP to test the throughput

// Run this command to create a server on your PC

// > nc -l 8888

IPAddress server_ip(10, 0, 1, 27);

const uint16_t port = 8888;

$ nc -l 8888

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