There's plenty of websites for it, but they're all Flash, not of much use for servers without graphics mode. Any tool I can use to test up/down bandwidth from Linux command line?
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ab - the apache benchmark tool comes with most installs of apache, can be used to test downstream bandwidth. You could probably use curl for upstream tests
Paul Dixon
2009-01-08 22:26:11
That would only test bandwidth to a particular endpoint, not to the entire Internet.
taw
2009-01-08 22:29:14
To test the bandwith to the entire Internet you would need to test the bandwith to all endpoints on the entire Internet...
matli
2009-01-08 22:31:26
I've not tried downloading the entire Internet. I'd probably need one of them new fangled 1TB drives? Seriously though, it wouldn't be hard to target a few hosts in areas of interest. I've used ab to check raw bandwidth by hitting something on my ISP home page, for example.
Paul Dixon
2009-01-08 22:33:42
So, can ab open up multiple concurrent communications channels to every endpoint? That would save me having to remember them all. :-)
paxdiablo
2009-01-08 22:34:30
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I usually just find a large file somewhere (such as a Linux distro ISO) and use ftp or wget to download it.
I don't think FTP gives you a figure until it's finished, but wget gives you a running commentary.
paxdiablo
2009-01-08 22:33:25
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If you have access to a unix shell on a server somewhere, you can use SCP to move a file between your computer and the server and vice-versa. It gives you the speed of the file transfer.
PJ Davis
2009-01-08 22:42:47
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Pick a large file from a fast source and grab it using wget or curl, A good file to download is Windows XP SP2, large file size and Microsoft's servers allow a very high download speed, unlike some providers who set a per download speed cap.
Andrew Williams
2009-01-08 22:53:51
The actual URL is something like http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe, though. How do you find that from the command line?
endolith
2010-09-03 15:58:23
Use `wget -O /dev/null` followed by the address to not actually save it.
endolith
2010-09-03 16:19:14
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An easy way would be to time wget/curl then divide the filesize by the time.
eg. 654mb linux distro -- 20 mins
32.7 mb/min
558.08 kb/sec
John T
2009-01-08 22:59:58
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Guys, I think you can use "iftop" package... you can download the rpm on http://checksuite.sourceforge.net/dl/.
cheers
Linox
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It looks like there is a tool available on sourceforge that uses speedtest.net from the terminal.
Terminal speedtest: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tespeed/
billcarroll
2010-04-19 00:07:34