Command-line speed test?

[H.S.]

Chris Jones wrote:
>> One thought I had was maybe there's some command line program I can use 
>> to send a file to another server, and view the Kbps reading. Not sure if 
>> this would be a true measurement, though. Help is appreciated.
> 
> scp ? That gives you a measure of the bandwidth at the command line. 

This may depend quite a bit on the machine on which it is being used 
because it uses encryption, and encryption uses the CPU. Moreover, I 
think one needs an account on the remote machine.

Best bet would be to download a file from a website using wget.

Getting the upload speed is still a problem though. For this, one needs 
to be able to upload a file to a remote mechine.

->HS