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by **Hallvor** » 2017-09-16 20:31

Why use it?

This application is nice if you want to monitor your broadband connection from the CLI. This makes it ideal for headless servers.

Many of you might have tried the web page: http://beta.speedtest.net/ It should give you the same result.

Installation
Simply install it by typing:

Code: Select all: # apt-get install speedtest-cli

Using it
We can now launch the application from the CLI by typing, as regular user:

Code: Select all: $ speedtest-cli

Speedtest will select the server with the lowest ping and give you the results, like this:

Code: Select all: hallvor@debian-hp:~$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Testing from HomeNet (XX.XX.XX.XX)... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Telenor A/S (Aalborg) [168.97 km]: 50.952 ms Testing download speed................................................................................ Download: 20.07 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................................................................... Upload: 17.97 Mbit/s hallvor@debian-hp:~$

Not very impressive... :roll:

by **Bulkley** » 2017-09-16 21:34

Nice idea. Thanks.

Does speedtest-cli need Flash? The one on the web site does. I've been using Speed of Me which uses HTML5.

by **Ardouos** » 2017-09-16 21:54

Bulkley wrote:Nice idea. Thanks.

Does speedtest-cli need Flash?

Nope

by **Bulkley** » 2017-09-17 02:07

Speedtest CLI is fast!

Code: Select all: Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Monashee Mountain Multimedia (Revelstoke, BC) [196.14 km]: 61.974 ms Testing download speed................................................................................ Download: 5.79 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................................................................... Upload: 1.00 Mbit/s

Yes, I know it's slow but Internet is expensive here and I can live with this.

by **RU55EL** » 2017-09-17 05:00

Nice! Thanks for the thread!

Code: Select all: russel@debian-nuc:~$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Testing from SimpleLink (xxx.xxx.xx.xx)... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Line Systems (West Chester, PA) [137.61 km]: 83.369 ms Testing download speed................................................................................ Download: 10.70 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................................................................... Upload: 21.33 Mbit/s

interesting that my upload speed is about double the download speed.

by **alan stone** » 2017-09-17 07:12

RU55EL wrote:interesting that my upload speed is about double the download speed.

Is your ISP located south of where you are? :oops:

by **kedaha** » 2017-09-17 08:05

Very nice! Thanks very much for the post. I've just tried it on my headless server:

Code: Select all: user@server:~$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Testing from ****** (**.***.***.***)... Selecting best server based on latency... Hosted by wilhelm.tel (Norderstedt) [18.59 km]: 22.128 ms Testing download speed........................................ Download: 93.44 Mbits/s Testing upload speed.................................................. Upload: 79.99 Mbits/s

Not bad at all!

by **RU55EL** » 2017-09-17 14:39

alan stone wrote:
RU55EL wrote:interesting that my upload speed is about double the download speed.

Is your ISP located south of where you are?

Not anymore:

Code: Select all: russel@debian-nuc:~$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Testing from SimpleLink (xxx.xxx.xx.xx)... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Comcast (Baltimore, MD) [139.59 km]: 103.526 ms Testing download speed................................................................................ Download: 9.94 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................................................................... Upload: 22.92 Mbit/s

[edit]
It seems to be balanced at work:

Code: Select all: russel@NUC-G:~$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Testing from SimpleLink (xxx.xxx.xx.xx)... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Hotwire Fision (Philadelphia, PA) [130.72 km]: 78.648 ms Testing download speed................................................................................ Download: 18.00 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................................................................... Upload: 18.67 Mbit/s

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by **gusnov** » 2018-01-27 03:33

thank u, its work bro

by **sunrat** » 2018-01-27 23:55

Be aware of the section titled "Inconsistency" at https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
I just tested with both speedtest-cli and Speedtest beta and got similar download speeds but very different ping and upload. This was expected as I also recently compared 4 web-based test sites and got different results every time even with multiple consecutive uses of the same test.
Bottom line is speed tests will only give ball-park results.

by **jppattison** » 2018-02-12 01:06

Thanks Hallvor, I was wondering if we were getting what we were promised - I don't think so ....

Code: Select all: Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by xxxxx(Billings, MT) [73.05 km]: xxxxxx Testing download speed................................................................................ Download: 7.58 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................................................................... Upload: 1.53 Mbit/s

Billings is south of us by about 110 miles! pretty slow on the upload!

by **Thorny** » 2018-02-12 09:42

jppattison wrote:..., I was wondering if we were getting what we were promised - I don't think so ....

You should double check your terms of service, generally they list speeds as up to, since many things can affect actual speed at any given time. Internet congestion, busy server that you are communicating with, rerouteing due to hardware issues on the shortest path, others. Even things like time of day can matter. It is often on non-commercial accounts that upload is significantly lower than download speed.

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