Testing speed on your gigabit network

Clarifications

ping a resource.

you said quickest and easiet :)

What you may want to do is set up some auditing and monitor your bandwidth use. There are several tools out there to help. If employees are streaming video or radio it can hog huge chunks of bandwidth in small companies.

Good Luck.

For LAN, get some large files and time how long it takes to transfer them.

Ping can be useful, but will not give you a realistic measure of how much throughput the network can deliver.

For the Internet side of things, use one of the speed tests at www.dslreports.com