Internet speed test using Terminal
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Speedtest.net
sudo apt-get install python-pip pip install speedtest-cli
or:
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo easy_install speedtest-cli
This 2nd solution worked on AWS Ubuntu 13.04 Server and it needed ~3Mb (python-setuptools) to download versus ~80Mb for python-pip
Run the speedtest:
$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Testing from Global Crossing (217.156.150.69)... Selecting best server based on latency... Hosted by Gigaclear PLC (Slough) [8.91 km]: 13.461 ms Testing download speed........................................ Download: 23.93 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................. Upload: 12.27 Mbit/s
Wget
wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip curl -o /dev/null http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip wget -O /dev/null http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip wget -O /dev/null http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com:81/1GB.zip wget -O /dev/null http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com:8080/1GB.zip
iperf
This measures the bandwidth between two locations where one is set as a server and another as a client. Note there is iperf and iperf3 that are not compatible.
Start up server listening on port 8888. By default it is TCP port 5001 and TCP window size 64.0KB
/opt/systems/bin/iperf -s -p 8888
Connect client to server on port 8888
/opt/systems/bin/iperf -c your.server.com -l 1300 -p 8888 -P 10
-P splits the test into a number of streams. So, to just measure throughput use -P 1, then increase number of streams to get more realistic data.
Switches:
# -t option used in the above command tells to transfer data for X seconds # -P --parallel n parallel client streams, iperf3 is single threaded, so if you are CPU bound, this will not yield higher throughput. # -p --port server port to listen on/connect to # -w desired window size value # -l, --len length of buffer to read or write (default 8 KB) # -u --udp use UDP rather than TCP # -M, --mss set TCP maximum segment size (MTU - 40 bytes) # -f m displays results in megabytes # -s, --server run in server mode, -D run as a daemon in the background # -c --client connect to server from client # -r bidirectional test individually, use -d --dualtest to test simultaneously