Google's internet performance measurement tools

[#1]

http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools.html

[#2]

gave me a load of impossible rubbish results when I tried it recently

[#3]

Well it does say "relies on your choosing a server geographically close to you" - and they're all in the USA. 

[#4]

Except for the Swiss Education and Research Network (Switzerland)  http://ndt.switch.ch

[#5]

It worked for me earlier (about 7:30pm):
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 1.17Mb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 18.28Mb/s
Server unable to determine bottleneck link type.
Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link
(ADSL2+ 21697/1382kbps sync)

[#6]

think again even worse than Google