best way to test speed of network device?

[mattkime]

i'd like to do some speed tests against my network devices, particularly my Asus RT-N16 router which features drive sharing.

advice on which tool to use?

[guitarist]

Tennis shoes and a Stopwatch?

[Wailer]

Tomato real time bandwidth monitor?

There are lots of freeware applications which will track/graph data rates through the network ports.

Start giving us some feedback about that N-based gigabit bad boy!

[mattkime]

>>Start giving us some feedback about that N-based gigabit bad boy!

Installed it last night and so far it seems stable. I'm going to run it for a week with the stock firmware before installing dd-wrt so i'll be certain if dd-wrt is causing problems.

[Wailer]

Ah...so that's why you can't use tomato (or dd-wrt's) bandwidth monitoring.

If you have a mac with 2 ethernet ports, you can use ipnetrouter like a flowmeter between the router and a computer.

Or you can hook up a router with tomato on it, configure it like a switch, and place it between 2 connections.