[Feature Request] Network/Wireless: basic speed measurement
Unlike on some other systems, it is currently impossible to have an idea of the effective quality of a network in terms of actual Internet speed rather than raw signal strength. Operating systems like Android use such metrics to "switch to faster networks" whenever available, and preserve some sort of speed statistics.
My idea would be to add support for speed measurement of active connections both as indicators e.g. in the Wi-Fi panel, and possibly also to warn the user when the network is slow (and even prompt to switch to a statistically faster one if available).
In addition, a simple, possibly privacy-respecting "speed test" pane could be added for active connections, in the way that some router interfaces do already, but that would be beyond this and arguably unneeded.