How to test network quality (home)

[Bruce Labitt]

The new year brings upgraded connectivity.  :)  Naturally I'd like to 
test my connection to see if I'm getting what I paid for.  I've tried 
some the tools at dslreports and received some strange results.  
http://www.dslreports.com/pingtest/7ab34aa36277/2861823?r=64

pingtest.net seems to have some issues as well.  I get a fail on packet 
loss.  However the test does not return useful results (like % loss) 
since it does not complete.

Are there any decent tools or scripts that one can use?  Stuff like 
iperf requires a server.  Any network tools that "just run" that give 
*useful* results?

tia
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