![]() ![]() Please support the nixCraft with a PayPal donation or Patreon. Keeping the site online is challenging, with everyone blocking Ads □. nixCraft is a one-person show, and many of you use Adblocker. □ Was this helpful? Please add a comment to show your appreciation or feedback. Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed or Email Newsletter. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. To support systems with insufficient memory, use this option to avoid a MemoryError ![]() ![]() Pre allocation is enabled by default to improve upload performance. Use HTTPS instead of HTTP when communicating with operated serversĭo not pre allocate upload data. Can be supplied multiple timesĮxclude a server from selection. Speeds listed in bit/s and not affected by –bytesĭisplay a list of servers sorted by distance Suppress verbose output, only show basic information in JSON format. Single character delimiter to use in CSV output. Speeds listed in bit/s and not affected by –bytes Suppress verbose output, only show basic information in CSV format. Suppress verbose output, only show basic information Generate and provide a URL to the share results image, not displayed with –csv Does not affect the image generated by –share, nor output from –json or –csv This simulates a typical file transfer.ĭisplay values in bytes instead of bits. Only use a single connection instead of multiple. Speedtest-cli -help CLI options Table 1: speedtest-cli FreeBSD options Command Read the docs using the man command or help command: Even Google provides speed test when you search “internet speed test” in the search bar. For the web browser-based, try the speedtest or fast service from Netflix. In this quick tutorial, we learned how to install speedtest-cli for testing internet bandwidth using on a FreeBSD Unix server or desktop system. $ speedtest -server 13623 -secure Conclusion Next, I am going to specify a server ID 13623 (Singtel) to test against: # Filter output using the grep command/ egrep command # How do I specify a server ID to test against a different server?įirst see a list of servers sorted by distance by passing the -list option: # get download, upload speed, and ping time # Now, we can use jq, which is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor for Unix-like systems. ![]() $ speedtest -secure -json > /tmp/output.jsonĭisplay the file called output. $ speedtest -secure -csv > /tmp/output.csv Let us redirect output to a file named /tmp/output.json: Pretty useful for automation and programming tasks: We can view test results via CSV, JSONL, or JSON format. Which will result into the following: Ping: 43.57 ms We can only show basic information such as ping time, download and upload speed from the CLI: $ speedtest -bytes Suppress verbose output We can display the Internet speed values in bytes instead of bits on my FreeBSD system as follows: Want to simulate a typical file transfer? Force a single connection instead of multiple (default): NOTE: There will be a small speed drop when connected to OpenVPN or WireGuard VPN. Hosted by NewMedia Express (Singapore) : 43.585 ms Extracting p圓8-speedtest-cli-2.1.3: 100% How to check the Internet speedįorce HTTPS instead of HTTP when communicating with operated servers or mirros: done ( 0 conflicting ) Installing p圓8-speedtest-cli-2.1.3. Number of packages to be installed: 1 38 KiB to be downloaded. Jul 19 09:15:01 raspberrypi CRON: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)īut I don't see the speedtest.log getting updated.The following 1 package (s ) will be affected (of 0 checked ): However, you can pass the list switch to generate a list of speedtest servers. While the tool itself provides a good platform for running speed tests, sometimes the server selection that the tool provides can be less than optimal. Jul 19 09:15:01 raspberrypi CRON: (pi) CMD (speedtest > /home/pi/speedtest.log) You might use speedtest-cli to test your servers’ network capacity at some point. Jul 19 09:00:01 raspberrypi CRON: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Jul 19 09:00:01 raspberrypi CRON: (pi) CMD (speedtest > /home/pi/speedtest.log) Jul 19 08:45:01 raspberrypi CRON: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Jul 19 08:45:01 raspberrypi CRON: (pi) CMD (speedtest > /home/pi/speedtest.log) Jul 19 08:30:01 raspberrypi CRON: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Jul 19 08:30:01 raspberrypi CRON: (pi) CMD (speedtest > /home/pi/speedtest.log) The job is executing on time, but all I get is cron output that looks like: Jul 19 08:17:01 raspberrypi CRON: (root) CMD ( cd / & run-parts -report /etc/cron.hourly) Speedtest-cli -csv > /home/pi/speedtest.log Cron job is setup as: */15 * * * * speedtest > /home/pi/speedtest.log ![]()
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