Tools to measure server connectivity times?

I want to certify that my hosting connection is poor

[guarriman]

Hi.

I've got a housed server within my customer's datacenter. I consider application runs ok, but it goes very slow.

I consider it's due to their connection (DSL) and installed another provisional server with a simple "Hello World" and no traffic. I'm to install the same server within another datacenter, and would like to find an external tool to certify connectivity times.

Do you know any of these tools? Thank you very much.

[phranque]

it depends on what exactly you are trying to measure.
if you are trying to measure the response time for a http get request it would be trivial to write a script or program for that purpose.
for example, in perl you could use LWP [search.cpan.org] and Time::SoFar [search.cpan.org].

you should also compare http response time to ping time which measures network response without server overhead.