TomatoUSB

I'd like to see a GUI based Speedtest under the Tools section of the firmware. This way if i'm offsite I can remote in to the router and get a visual speedtest directly off the router.

Even if you make it just a text based one as long as it was built in the the Web Interface under the Tools section it would be nice.

If you didn't want to make it use an existing speedtest site you could always make it configurable. For example the user would be required to put in their own FTP server info and the speedtest would just upload files of certain sizes to the FTP server and then download them back while calculating the time it took. Then it could spit out the information and viola! Easy speedtest. Results would still be affected by FTP server location and utilization on that server etc… But a lot of speedtest sites have the same potential issues.

couldent you use wget, and download a small file to /tmp to just test your speed over telnet?

I'd love to see this too. What would be really handy is to have both router to internet speed testing AND client to router speed testing. Would be super handy for visualizing where signals are degrading.

A feature like this would be nice, but I have two suggestions:

First, you could do a "wget -O /dev/null <someurl>", which wouldn't waste any space saving the file.

Second, it would be really nice if it didn't measure the speed of the download it did, but the traffic on the internet port. That way, you would have a speedtest that would not be thrown off by a client on the LAN downloading. This might not be that hard since the same data must be collected to make traffic graphs.

Yes, I have a very nice speed test that does exactly that.

Like this:

  speedtest &
  speedtest
11153400 bytes, 36 seconds: 310 kbytes/s. Measurement Error: <3%.

WAN (up/down): 9/444 
LAN (up/down): 0/1 

11153400 bytes, 48 seconds: 232 kbytes/s. Measurement Error: <3%.

WAN (up/down): 10/434 
LAN (up/down): 1/1

I started the second speedtest 5 seconds later, so that there was about 30 seconds overlap.
You can see the subjective values of 310 kB/s and 232 kB/s, with the global values agreeing pretty well on 444 kB/s and 434 kB/s.

Now the LAN is busy, so here's a more interesting speed test:

speedtest
11153400 bytes, 84 seconds: 133 kbytes/s. Measurement Error: <2%.

WAN (up/down): 12/445 
LAN (up/down): 9/309