How To:

Want to test your speed via linux? Only have shell access?

Just follow these simple commands and you will be testing your speed using the same system as the popular Speedtest.net!

Step 1: You should first download the script, our preffered version is python.

wget https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py

Step 2: As with most things in a linux shell, you need to allow linux to be able to execute it, so we do a simple CHMOD.

chmod +x speedtest_cli.py

Step 3: We have now downloaded and made the script executable, now is the time to test out speed!! Simply run:

./speedtest_cli.py

You will now see your results popping up right there in your shell! Here is our result just for the fun of it :-)

Testing from MySHH Ltd (46.4.35.199)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Base-Mail (Frankfurt) [100.73 km]: 16.621 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 892.24 Mbits/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 579.48 Mbits/s

Thanks for reading this quick and simple how to, if it helped you.. you're welcome and if you have any questions please feel free to drop us a line, at any time.