How to check Internet Speed via Terminal?
I recommend the speedtest-cli tool for this. I created a blog post (Measure Internet Connection Speed from the Linux Command Line) that goes into detail of downloading, installing and usage of it.
The short version is this: (no root required)
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -
Output:
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Comcast Cable (x.x.x.x)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by FiberCloud, Inc (Seattle, WA) [12.03 km]: 44.028 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 32.29 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 5.18 Mbit/s
Update in 2018:
Using pip install --user speedtest-cli
gets you a version that is probably newer than the one available from your distribution's repositories.
Update in 2016:
speedtest-cli
is in Ubuntu repositories now. For Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and later use:
sudo apt install speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli
try this on command line
wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
try this too
sourceforge.net/projects/tespeed/
got it from above link
If you can't be bothered to install iperf , you could precede any command that shifts a known amount of data with the time
command and do a sum.
iperf is simple and easy to use.
It requires a client and server.
(on the server)
user@server$ iperf -s
(on the client)
user@client$ iperf -c server.domain
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.1.3 port 52143 connected with 192.168.1.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 113 MBytes 94.7 Mbits/sec
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