After some sort of tool to test network speed between 2 pcs.

anyone recomend anything?

Depends what you mean by "speed".

netperf is a pretty good command-line based tool. Although it's probably better suited to latency (billions of small packets) rather than pure bandwidth over GbE.

The Windows file sharing system has quite a few overheads. If you want to measure transfer speed, you could set up an ftp server on one PC and connect to it from another PC and transfer some files to see what you get.

RaidenFTPD is pretty good for that, and you can play around with an un-registered version free of charge. RaidenFTPD global portal site

Cheers

Are their any bandwidth tools I can simply use.

Something like this on a linux system should work.

Doing it from memory, so man netcat will help

on a listening machine:

netcat -vv -l -n -p 4321 >/dev/null

On sending machine:

yes|netcat -p 4321 >/dev/null

Failing that try the intel iometer suite.

It has some bugs and shortfalls but runs just fine on windows.

If you have XP cant you just use ctrl-alt-del and the network tab?? Shows you the network connection usage does it not?