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Are there command line based broadband speed test sites?
Are there command line based broadband speed test sites?
The common ones I know like speedtest.net and thinkbroadband.com have to many adverts and flash on their pages. I am interested in plain web pages or possibly command line clients (not sure how these will work though)
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Your best bet is to use cachefly's 100mb test file here - http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Then take the average at the end and multiply it by 8 to get megabits/second
For upload, If you have another server somewhere just use scp to upload a file and try to get a general estimate of the upload speed, again using the same method to convert it to megabits
http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin
http://lg.softlayer.com
http://speedtest.net/speedtest-servers.php
Use wget -O /dev/null (file url) for maximum speed (doesn't save it to disk afaik).
How about speed test websites with simple animation free pages? Getting a console on a customers computer with the usual Linux command line utilities on a Windows computer is difficult.
I don't think that'd work, since the only way it measures the speed is by using flash to download the file to a temporary directory/just buffer it/clear it/continue downloading.
You could always write a small application that does this for you, like in some form of C or Java (Wouldn't work too well if the computer doesn't have it installed) that just measures the download speed.
With the links @JTR posted you could easily choose a server of it and test the speed using it, since it looks like it's a simple HTTP request that you can send randomly generated content for upload speeds
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
I think I've covered every possible angle of testing your download speed at this point.