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bing is a Unix program which is essentially a ping with added network throughput measurements.
From the man page:
Bing determines bandwidth on a point-to-point link by sending ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets and measuring their roundtrip times for different packet sizes on each end of the link.
You must specify two hosts as command line arguments; the results will be presented to you (approximately) every second.