Linux command to check Internet connection speed.

networkCommand.md

# View public IP

• curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | sed 's#.Address: (.)</b.*#\1#'
• wget -qO - icanhazip.com
• curl ifconfig.me
• curl ident.me
• dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
• lynx -dump ifconfig.me | grep 'IP Address'
• curl ipecho.net/plain
• curl bot.whatismyipaddress.com
• curl ipinfo.io
• curl ipogre.com

Benchmarking

• wget dl.getipaddr.net/speedtest.sh -q -O- | bash
• curl -s dl.getipaddr.net/speedtest.sh -o- | bash
• wget https://raw.github.com/blackdotsh/curl-speedtest/master/speedtest.sh && chmod u+x speedtest.sh && bash speedtest.sh
• wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py && chmod +x speedtest-cli && ./speedtest-cli

Download

CacheFly (Canada):

• wget -O /dev/null http://cachecefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test ## SoftLayer (EE.UU. y Holanda):
• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip
• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip
• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.ams01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
• wget -O /dev/null http://50.23.64.58/downloads/test100.zip
• curl -o /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
• curl -O http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip > /dev/null
• wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
• echo "scale=2; 'curl --progress-bar -w "%{speed_download}" http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip -o test.zip' / 131072" | bc | xargs -I {} echo {}Mb/s

Linode (EE.UU., Reino Unido y Japón):

• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.tokyo.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin
• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.london.linode.com/100MB-london.bin
• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.newark.linode.com/100MB-newark.bin
• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.atlanta.linode.com/100MB-atlanta.bin
• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.dallas.linode.com/100MB-dallas.bin
• wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.fremont.linode.com/100MB-fremont.bin ## Leaseweb (EE.UU. y Holanda):
• wget -O /dev/null http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/speedtest/1000mb.bin
• wget -O /dev/null http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/speedtest/1000mb.bin ## FDCServer (EE.UU.):
• wget -O /dev/null http://lg.denver.fdcservers.net/100MBtest.zip ## OVH (Francia):
• wget -O /dev/null http://proof.ovh.net/files/100Mb.dat

Upload

• iperf3 -c iperf.scottlinux.com -u
• iperf3 -c iperf.volia.net -R -P 4
• iperf -c iperf.volia.net -r -P 4
• iperf -c s-network1.amcs.tld -P 1 -i 5 -p 5999 -f B -t 60 -T 1
• iperf -c iperf.acd.net -P 10 -t 240
• iperf -c ping.online.net -i 2 -t 20 -r
• bwctl -T iperf3 -f m -t 10 -i 1 -c ps.ncar.xsede.org
• iperf -c ping.online.net -i 5 -u -r
• iperf -c ping-90ms.online.net -i 5 -u -r
• iperf -c debit.k-net.fr -i 10 -T 100
• iperf -c speedtest.serverius.net
• iperf -c iperf.he.net

Good news : get internet speed from your command line...

Work has shifted to using the infrastructure of speedtest.net and fast.com --
again made easily accessible by Bash shell scripts for all POSIX and Linux systems.
Please visit https://git.io/speed to obtain the code. PR are welcomed!