There is a tool on the speedtest.net website that allows us to carry out speed tests on our connection via the browser.
But how do you perform this test on a Linux server via SSH?
We’re going to use a python script provided by speedtest.net.
First, let’s install python:
apt-get install python-minimal
We can then run the script:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -
