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wajiw
Asked: 2010-11-26 12:55:13 +0800 CST

What terminal-based network speed tests are available?

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I'm looking to find a way to test my internet speed at home through ssh. Does anyone know a terminal app that can give me calculations similar info to speedtest.net?

It would also be really cool if there was something that would do tests based on common internet ports too (i.e. web, torrent, etc) so you can see if you're getting throttled by your ISP.

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  1. Best Answer

    You may use nload (Install nload) for this purpose. Sample output:

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    You can install nload by this command:

    sudo apt-get install nload

    Also available in software center.

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  2. Update Nov 2016: I discontinued it. Please use another provider i.e. Init7 with http://speedtest.init7.net/10GB.dat

    Original answer:

    There is also this easy "speedtest":

    wget -O/dev/null speedtest.pixelwolf.ch

    This gives you the current speed and it is available up to 100 megabits per second.

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  3. How about netperf? http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/man1/netperf.1.html

    netperf Install netperf

    Quoting from the man page:

    Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure various aspects of networking performance. Currently, its focus is on bulk data transfer and request/response performance using either TCP or UDP, and the Berkeley Sockets interface. In addition, tests for DLPI, and Unix Domain Sockets, tests for IPv6 may be conditionally compiled-in.

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  4. The simplest solution I know is to simply use

    wget -O/dev/null http://releases.ubuntu.com/saucy/ubuntu-13.10-desktop-i386.iso

    wget will provide you with file size, download time, and download speed.

    If you need more complex solution, have a look at iperf. This solution is however more complicated, because it requires more set-up, and is not straight-forward (for example it requires a server with higher speed than yours).

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  5. you also can use iftop while transferring files

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  6. scp [email protected]:/some-file.ext .

    will show something like :

    some-file.ext
    24% 16KB 13.0KB/s 00:03 ETA^

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