How to discover network speed?

I'm a happy user of a mixed Mac (MacBook Pro) and PC (XP Pro SP3) home wireless network - unusual I know! My question is whether there is a way to get my MacBook to tell me what speed it is connecting to my Time Capsule-based wireless network?
The reason I ask is that my Windows laptop (Sony VAIO with a elderly "b" standard wifi card) tells me that it is only connecting at 1Mbps (occaisionally 2Mbps) - it used to tell me that it connected to my previous D-link router at 11Mbps. I appreciate that it might be lying to me in one or both cases but I would like to know whether I am getting as much out of the TC as I could. I determine the alleged speed of the network by hovering the mouse over the wifi indicater in the systems tray. It maintains this story regardless of whether any other computers are logged on to the network. I don't know how to do the equivalent in Leopard (I am a recent convert to Macs!)
I tried speedtest.net but it only told me that I have a miserly 3.9Mbps broadband connection (ie about the UK average) but at least it says the same regardless of whether I do the test on the Mac or the Sony. Shame I am paying for 8Mbps...
Thanks
Ian

{quote}My question is whether there is a way to get my MacBook to tell me what speed it is connecting to my Time Capsule-based wireless network?
{quote}
The Network Utility will give you the link speed. It is located in the Applications/Utilities folder.

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