Command-line speed test?

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:51:08 -0500
"Robert Dailey" <rcdailey at gmail.com> 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.

Install "iftop" .

It gives a graphical and numeric view of your down and up speeds in
"real time". You can choose to see IP numbers or let it make DNS
lookups as it runs, and you can change the units (Kbits, KBytes and so
on)

>From "apt-cache show iftop" :

"Description: displays bandwidth usage information on an network
interface iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage.
It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table
of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the
question "Why is my Internet link so slow?".

Run it as root, or with sudo. You can also specify interfaces. For
eaxmple:

sudo iftop -BP -i eth0

-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
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