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Test your download speed via the command line with wget.
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speedtest.sh
wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
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Vest commented Sep 1, 2026

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I have found one more site: https://speed.af.de/

wget -4 -O /dev/null "https://speed.af.de/files/100MB.bin"  #(for IPv4)
wget -6 -O /dev/null "https://speed.af.de/files/100MB.bin"  #(for IPv6)
wget -4 -O /dev/null "https://speed.af.de/files/1GB.bin"    #(for IPv4)
wget -6 -O /dev/null "https://speed.af.de/files/1GB.bin"    #(for IPv6)

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