http://askubuntu.com/questions/7976/how-do-you-test-the-network-speed-betwen-two-boxes
I use its from another computer on the other side of the network.
iperf
. It’s a client server arrangement in that you run it in server mode at one end and connect to One both machines run:
sudo apt-get install iperf
Then on Computer A (Server):
iperf -s
And on Computer B (Client):
iperf -c <address of Computer A>