Speedtest From CLI

[jasonvp]

I don't know how long ago it was that the CLI-based Speedtest binaries were made public.  Maybe this is old news and I'm just catching up.  I find this a HUGE help, specially when I'm working on my router's console.  https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli .. looks like they have binaries for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.  That's handy, as my router is the latter of those.

 

router$ speedtest -L
Closest servers:

    ID  Name                           Location             Country
==============================================================================
 16617  Cox - Nova                     Fairfax, VA          United States
 21542  i3D.net                        Ashburn, VA          United States
 14335  PBW Communications, LLC        Herndon, VA          United States
 16312  QTS Data Centers               Dulles, VA           United States
  3586  LeaseWeb                       Manassas, VA         United States
 30561  ZeptoVM                        Ashburn, VA          United States
 17383  Windstream                     Ashburn, VA          United States
 21640  Pilot                          Ashburn, VA          United States
 23373  Whitesky Communications LLC    Ashburn, VA          United States
  3810  BroadAspect                    Ashburn, VA          United States
router$ speedtest -s 17383

   Speedtest by Ookla

     Server: Windstream - Ashburn, VA (id = 17383)
        ISP: Verizon Fios Business
    Latency:     3.19 ms   (0.12 ms jitter)
   Download:   923.48 Mbps (data used: 462.8 MB)
     Upload:   904.96 Mbps (data used: 1.1 GB)
Packet Loss:     0.0%
 Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/4cccf331-62a2-46c8-bdcc-bd70a0f0bc16

 

Cool.

[Lurick]

I've always had issues, at least on Ubuntu, where the speedtest cli is all over the place and never really near accurate. Not sure if that's changed since I used it last (~1+ years at this point)

[jasonvp]

18 minutes ago, Lurick said:

I've always had issues, at least on Ubuntu, where the speedtest cli is all over the place and never really near accurate. Not sure if that's changed since I used it last (~1+ years at this point)

Heh; I didn't even know it's existed for that long.  From my testing on my FreeBSD router and server, and my Mac: all seems pretty consistent.

[Lurick]

Just now, jasonvp said:

Heh; I didn't even know it's existed for that long.  From my testing on my FreeBSD router and server, and my Mac: all seems pretty consistent.

Yah, for years there was some crappy cli script that did speedtest. I see late last year they released a dedicated speedtest app. I installed that and it's pretty consistent now