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I'd love to see is a general purpose tool for diagnosing network issues.

Is my router messed up? Is it my neighborhood's node? Is it the destination server? Is it my computer's network card? Wifi? Cell tower?

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I've started writing this two or three times. It's so much bigger than I think it will be every time. This would need to either be a big time investment, or a community effort to supply all the tests one can run. And doing a speed test to determine what the bottleneck is in network speed requires a lot of third party bandwidth -- heck, even a million people pinging your server every day would be something to consider if your server is a potato (mine is).

That said, I'd love to see (and/or contribute to) such a tool too!

I wonder if Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) could help.

https://ooni.torproject.org/

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