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I would like a shell script that does a quick upload/download speed check of my current connection, similar to the functionality of the website speedtest.net, but without the flash and the fancy graphics. It doesn’t need to be super fancy or accurate, just give me a rough idea of what I’m working with. Any languages that are commonly supported in any shell will be fine.
wget-ing a large file is the way to do it. ie the above
you will see something like this:
according to this test mine is a 1.38m/s