Real download speed?

I'm wondering? Is it possible for Safari to give real time feedback as to the actual speed of a download? It would be so useful to see if the speed advertised by a given ISP is ever close to real. On DSL it can be difficult to know if one has ever reached the speed advertised because, quite frankly, it's all nicely fast. Is there a way, without a stop watch and a calculator (for us already busy folks) to find out just how fast one's connection is.
This is as much a request to Apple developers as a question to the world out there. It might be nice if after a given download in Safari and/or Mail, to have the option to read a dialog box that gives real results each time.

There are two ways you might think about discovering the download (or upload) speeds that you are getting.
First, have a look in Activity Monitor, in the Applications>Utilities folder. There is a tab there that will give you an idea of the Network speeds for data or packets.
Secondly, try a site like Speakeasy which allows testing of the link you have and may give you some surprising results.

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