[MickeyZ]

Hi,
Is there an application or a way in MacOS X to test the actual wireless connection speed between MBP and wireless router? I'm using iStumbler to monitor the signal strength/quality (which is within a range of 30 - 70 depending on where MBP is located in the house), but I would like to know what speed I'm getting when the iStumbler shows 35 for example.

[SWFan]

Copy a large file in the 1GB range and simply time it using a stop watch.

[MickeyZ]

That would be one way of checking, but time consuming if I wanted instantly to check the wireless speed. More over it would required another computer on a local network to copy the file to. I was looking more for some sort of network application that could test the wireless connection bandwidth and display it (like another column in iStumbler).

[SWFan]

There's no such thing that I can think of because the only way to test speed is by tracking throughput. So your assertion that you don't have other devices to track the transfer means even if you had the software you wouldn't be able to test the throughput. All you'd be testing is your Internet bandwidth which unless you live somewhere in Asia is going to be significantly less than your wireless router's capability.

[sparhawk]

Um I may just be stupid but why don't you just use a free internet speed tester.
Won't it tell you Mbs or is that not enough info for what you are doing or is it more complicated than that?

[slpdLoad]

You could just ping your router in the terminal. Go to the Network preference pane, find out what your router IP is (probably like 192.168.1.1), then type

ping 192.168.1.1

into the terminal. As far as I can tell that's what you're trying to do.