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Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2015-09-02 · latest 2021-02-10

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  1. This is built on top of a tool that is highly unreliable at speeds over ~100Mbps. Data: https://web.archive.org/web/20201014061733/https://github.co... I would highly advise using the official speedtest.net CLI. The dev of speedtest-cli…
    comment by virtuallynathan · 2021-02-10 · in Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool
  2. speedtest-cli is garbage if you have >100Mbps Speeds. The dev refuses to acknowledge this: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/issues/226 Also not just me: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/issues/649…
    comment by virtuallynathan · 2019-11-20 · in Run an Internet Speed Test from the Command Line
  3. …become increasingly inacurate with high-speed connections. For more information, see the readme on: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
    comment by davewood · 2019-11-20 · in Run an Internet Speed Test from the Command Line
  4. …is a Python utility that works with Speedtest.net called "speedtest-cli". pip install speedtest-cli https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
    comment by tombrossman · 2018-07-18 · in Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed
  5. …Can anybody run speedtest-cli[1] on a 512MB LightSail instance to compare network throughput? [1] https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
    comment by nodesocket · 2016-12-01 · in Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
  6. https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
    comment by olejorgenb · 2016-08-10 · in Building fast.com
  7. I did that, works great and with speed test cli it (did it without that at first) it's even better! https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli If you are going to setup a cronjob/service for it, I suggest using the --simple flag.
    comment by figgis · 2016-08-09 · in Building fast.com
  8. …because I don't have Flash installed anywhere. It's handy for remote or headless machines too. [0]: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
    comment by jlgaddis · 2016-05-18 · in Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test
  9. Quite similar to https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
    comment by daureg · 2015-09-02 · in Show HN: Test your internet connection speed from the command-line