Not bragging..
So you know all the old speedtest.net stuff. Â They have their old flash based client, and a html5 client, but what if you are on a bare VPS, and you don’t want to install X and the gigs of desktop to run a simple bandwidth test?
Well install python, and then run this:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python –
And away it goes!
# curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python –
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Testing from Joe’s Datacenter (172.86.179.14)…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list…
Selecting best server based on ping…
Hosted by Packet Layer Consulting LLC (Kansas City, KS) [5.37 km]: 5.394 ms
Testing download speed……………………………………………………………………..
Download: 53.06 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed……………………………………………………………………………………….
Upload: 110.83 Mbit/s
Nice!
The values I get there seem unreasonably low. Using the website I get 494 Mbit/s down and 785 MBit/s up, while the script only returns 73.51 Mbit/s down and 12.69 Mbit/s up.
hmm. now thats not right. of course it’s not my script, but I should try an apples/vs/apples comparison…