We are just starting to research this stuff - I expect this mailing list to save my bacon many times :) I'd like to hear some ideas on how people test their setups. It seems to me that the ideal testing rig would be two computers, one on either side the router. Have one computer open up some number of connections with various procol characteristics to the other and start blasting data through each connection. Have the other computer display the rate at which data is being received for each connection in a really cool graphical way. Does anyone here actually have the tools to do this? I would be terribly grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction.