EX60 and Voice/Video quality measurements

Does the EX60 provide any means of generating a real time MOS and/or R-Factor and/or PESQ or any other objective measurement of voice and video quality.  I am willing to turn extra debugs on, parse and mine logs and even setup two VC points to perform a dedicated test call.

Ji Jan Pieter, thanks for the response,
You can bypass the router and connect your Ethernet cable to your modem.
No, I can't, since my router is a TrendNet TWE-435BRM, as mentioned in my first post, which is also the modem.
The Ethernet cable that connects the Mac to the router needs to send/recieve data full-duplex, like the ISDN line that connects to the modem. The modem will translate the ISDN signal to ADSL and pass it through to the Ethernet full-duplex. When there is any device on the network that has been manually set, it will convert to half-duplex and data traffic will not travel the speed it could when all devices had been left to auto-sense the connection, the default setting. This is called a Duplex mismatch and might cause these problems, it is however a common problem.
I checked the connection between my iMac and the router and it doesn't seem to be the problem. I get Internet full speed (+/- 5M download, +/- .4M upload).
Maybe it's a problem with my ISP, maybe it's a problem with iChat. Hence my question about how I can test the router. In fact, I've tried setting my iMac as a DMZ PC on the network but it didn't make any difference. I still get my parents video scrambled and bad audio (after restarting both the router and the Macs on both ends). That pretty much eliminates the router. I think iChat probably works... No error messages, no firewall warnings. It lives me with my ISP. I don't have much control over that.

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