Internet speed test using Terminal

Speedtest.net

sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install speedtest-cli

or:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
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

Wget

wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip

References

• Measure Internet Connection Speed from the Linux Command Line