In this article, you will learn that how to install Speedtest-cli to test the network (Bandwidth) speed of your server and how to use it in Linux. Speedtest-cli is a command line interface to test internet providing by speedtest.net
Install Speedtest-CLI on CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 and Fedora
This tool is written in python so we must install python before proceeding. so run below command and install python.
dnf install -y python36
Create soft link for python3
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python
Downoad speedtest_cli using below commands
cd
wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py
Make the script executable
chmod +x speedtest-cli
Finally run below command to test internet bandwidth
./speedtest-cli
Install Speedtest-CLI on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli
That’s it. Now you learned that how to install speedtest-cli command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Ubuntu Linux.