If you want to check the speed of your bandwidth on any linux server and you don’t have any graphical interface where you open up browser to perform a speed test by ookla or anything like that so what you have !
Here comes the SSH ways, we here will let you know about how you can check the bandwidth speed over any linux server using ssh. For that please open your server ssh by putty application. Then run following command :
wget -O speedtest.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py && chmod +x speedtest.py && ./speedtest.py
This will start a file download and upload process and you will get your speed test results in following pattern:
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Testing from CONTABO (207.244.255.246)…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list…
Selecting best server based on ping…
Hosted by Contabo (St. Louis, MO) [1.05 km]: 0.752 ms
Testing download speed……………………………………………………………………..
Download: 588.81 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed……………………………………………………………………………………
Upload: 551.78 Mbit/s
Here you can see your downloading speed is 588MBPs and your upload rate is 551MBPs. For more informative blogs stay tuned with our blogs 🙂