Checking internet connection speed from the Linux console

The speedtest.net site is well known. It helps a lot to check your internet speed, but what about linux servers that don’t have a GUI, only a bash console.

For cases like that, Matt Martz wrote a python utility you can just download and run.

Steps:

1. Download

   wget -O /usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py
   chmod +x /usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli
   speedtest_cli</del>
   

2. Install:

   pip install speedtest-cli
   

3. Run:

   chmod +x speedtest-cli
   speedtest-cli
   

Here’s what you get as output:

github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli