Comments on: How to Test Your Linux Internet Speed Using Speedtest CLI

By: Daniel Bernardo

Daniel Bernardo — Thu, 27 May 2021 07:54:39 +0000

Ookla now has a native client for this surpassing speedtest-cli performance limitations: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

By: crt

crt — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 20:32:26 +0000

This would be more useful if it could be used between two servers on the same internal network; between subnets and over VPN’s and not just “yet another internet speedtest” application.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:28:36 +0000

In reply to Kirk M.

Thanks – “speedtest-cli” worked for me

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:20:29 +0000

In reply to Kirk M. @Kirk, If you've installed speedtest-cli using python-pip, then you will get speedtest-cli executable, and those who've followed Python script installation will get speedtest_cli.py. I hope you get it..Thanks

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:44:25 +0000

I noticed that attempting to run:

‘speedtest_cli.py’

…from the terminal after the two packages were installed using ‘apt’, the result was no command found running Linux Mint 18.1). It appears that the correct command is:

‘speedtest-cli’ (with a ‘dash’ not an ‘underscore’ and no ‘.py’ at the end)

The above works fine although I tend to like to see the results in bytes not bits so I added –bytes at the end.