How can I do a "speedtest" from a router console?

[treimers1]

Hi all --

I have a need for something that I'm sure is somewhat possible, but I'm not sure what my options are...

I have  a public wireless Internet network in a place that I don't often physically go to, but I can reach from my office/home via SSH.

The equipment is a Cisco 1841 and Cat2960 switch that provide routing/NAT/vlan support for a number of access points "behind" the router and switch.

I need to be able to know whether or not a throughput problem is the wireless provider or the ISP -

If I go to that site, it's obviously easy to plug into a switchport that is in one of the vlans used by the wireless system, get a DHCP IP address and run a test against speedtest.net  or something like that.

But I can't always go there when they're having trouble --

If I SSH into that router from my office or home, what can I do remotely with extended ping to simulate a bandwidth test?

What sort of settings and output interpretation (by me)  would be effectively as close as the same thing to doing simple speedtest.net

test from a PC on the wired segment of the network?

thanks, 

[tiwang]

I have also from time to time a similary problem - not on a wireless infrastructure but wired but that doesn't matter - I have ended up with building a speedtester (ookla on a linux box) and put out there.

You might be able to get some impression of the health by f.ex saving the kernel from the router or cat to an external device - create a baseline first when you know that the net is healthy