Linux – How to test download speed using command line
by Riley MacDonald, June 14, 2017
Download speed can be tested via cli using this handy bash command:
echo "scale=2; `curl --progress-bar -w "%{speed_download}" http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip -o /dev/null` / 131072" | bc | xargs -I {} echo {} mbps |
I’ve aliased this command for convenient reuse:
alias speedtest='echo "scale=2; `curl --progress-bar -w "%{speed_download}" http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip -o /dev/null` / 131072" | bc | xargs -I {} echo {} mbps' |