The FCC is running a program where they will distribute 10000 wireless home routers as part of their test my ISP program to test and measure the following on residential broadband connections.

Multi-threaded HTTP download speed test
Multi-threaded HTTP based upload speed test
Availability of the connection
Jitter
Latency (both ICMP and UDP)
Packet loss (both ICMP and UDP)
DNS query resolution time
DNS query failure rate
Web page loading time
Web page loading failure rate
Video streaming performance

Program runs for 3 years and you keep the router afterwords.

http://www.testmyisp.com/index.php - Join Link

http://www.blogtechnical.com/887/fcc-giving-out-free-wireless-n-routers-as-part-of-broadband-test.bt - article referring to it

Chris Janzow | Implementation | Quality Retail Systems, Inc