Solved How To Check Internet Speed From Terminal

fred974

fred974

Hello,

I'm in the process of setting the HFSC queue in /etc/pf.conf and in order to set the FIOS upload value, I need to find out what my current upload speed is.

Could anyone please advise me on how to check my internet upload speed from the command line?

Thank you.
Fred
 
If you have access to a server outside of your network, you could use netcat (nc(1)) to set up a transmitter and a listener and pump traffic between them.

Untested ports:
net/py-speedtest-cli; Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth
www/speedtest-mini; Mini bandwidth speed test on your own server
 
I've seen worse upload speeds on web servers, but it totally depends on what you're serving, and what else you are doing on the upload. Remember that 20 Mbit/s download speed, when fully used by e.g. HTTP or FTP traffic, generates quite a lot of upload traffic (ACKs). In the order of hundreds of Kbit/s. This may make your web server extremely slow or even unreachable at times. You could look into a cheap VPS. Couple of dollars a month, and you have Gbit/s speeds.
 
Thank you for the feedback.

Just a quick one as you are the forum Admin...
Is there a button to create USER=812 /USER
 
OK let me rephrase...
On the old forum to there was a button..

I cannot find one here but I noticed that you corrected my post with the USER=812 tag
 
drhowarddrfine said:
wget -O /dev/null [URL='http://http://http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip']http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip[/URL]
Click to expand...
Thank you for the info but how do you interpret the result?

root@FreeBSD~# wget -O /dev/null [url]http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip[/url]
Code: 
--2014-10-22 10:57:12--  http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip
Resolving speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com (speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com)... 208.43.102.250
Connecting to speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com (speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com)|208.43.102.250|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]
Saving to: '/dev/null'

100%[=====================================================================================================================================================================>] 104,874,307 6.43MB/s  in 18s

2014-10-22 10:57:31 (5.48 MB/s) - '/dev/null' saved [104874307/104874307]

Is 5.48 MB/s the upload or download speed?
 
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