Check your bandwith with speedtest-cli
Posted: 14 Jun 2016, 16:27
I came over this nice Command line tool that checks my network speed.
I installed it on my Centos server but it should work all over the place.
Here is what I did:
I installed python-pip - it will be in your repository
then I did a:
That's it so I was ready to run
in my terminal and it reported the up and download speed nicely and also the provider and the server of the ISP...and the distance to that server 
Nicely presented in my terminal, but since I am a social person wanting to share; speedtest-cli has thought of that too.
If you run:
then it will generate an image and a link to where it is shared:
If you are the tall and silent minimalistic type you can do a:
It will give you the ping and up/download speed-nothing more.
You may have to run it as speedtest-cli.py on some distros but I didn't have to on Centos7 or on Manjaro.
Here is the liveshow:
http://showterm.io/7b7972971344b6b7744f4
I installed it on my Centos server but it should work all over the place.
Here is what I did:
I installed python-pip - it will be in your repository
then I did a:
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sudo pip install speedtest-cli --upgradeThat's it so I was ready to run
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speedtest-cli Nicely presented in my terminal, but since I am a social person wanting to share; speedtest-cli has thought of that too.
If you run:
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speedtest-cli --share If you are the tall and silent minimalistic type you can do a:
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speedtest-cli --simpleIt will give you the ping and up/download speed-nothing more.
You may have to run it as speedtest-cli.py on some distros but I didn't have to on Centos7 or on Manjaro.
Here is the liveshow:
http://showterm.io/7b7972971344b6b7744f4