Tutorial How to check internet speed via terminal.

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How to check internet speed via terminal. - JzJad - 09-22-2014

Want to check the download speed of your VPS/Server but its only Command Line?
Well you can still do it using Speedtest.net over terminal, and this is how.

1.

Code:
wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py

Code:
chmod +x speedtest-cli

3. Run the speed test.

Code:
./speedtest-cli

And your results will be show shortly! Smile

Hope this comes in handy!

&& Also thanks to Shebang

(09-23-2014, 03:08 PM).Shebang Wrote: You can also do this via python-pip:

Code:
apt-get install python-pip pip install speedtest-cli speedtest or speedtest-cli to run use the --share flag to get a link to your results
Example of result:

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RE: How to check internet speed via terminal. - Eclipse - 09-23-2014

This is a neat program! I've had to rely on estimation in the past, thank you for sharing.

RE: How to check internet speed via terminal. - Shebang - 09-23-2014

You can also do this via python-pip:

Code:
apt-get install python-pip
pip install speedtest-cli
speedtest or speedtest-cli to run
use the --share flag to get a link to your results

Example of result:
[Image: 3781368690.png]

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RE: How to check internet speed via terminal. - JzJad - 09-23-2014

(09-23-2014, 03:08 PM).Shebang Wrote: You can also do this via python-pip:

Code:
apt-get install python-pip pip install speedtest-cli speedtest or speedtest-cli to run use the --share flag to get a link to your results
Example of result:

(Seeding some stuff right now, why the upload is so bad)

aww, nice i havnt seen that one before! Smile

RE: How to check internet speed via terminal. - Shebang - 09-23-2014

(09-23-2014, 03:11 PM)JzJad Wrote: aww, nice i havnt seen that one before!

It's the same one you posted, just an alternate way of getting it :p

RE: How to check internet speed via terminal. - JzJad - 09-23-2014

(09-23-2014, 03:40 PM).Shebang Wrote: It's the same one you posted, just an alternate way of getting it :p

Yeah, my bad i realize that, i meant to say I haven't seen it done that way xD

RE: How to check internet speed via terminal. - roger_smith - 09-23-2014

Very cool stuff here, I'm sure this could come in handy when working on some of my headless machines. Thx for the share Smile