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1. Introduction

Speedtest-cli is used to check the speed of uploading and downloading in the server and it use command line interface in order to perform the task. You can also test the network speed of your server too. It is quite simple to install Speedtest-cli in server. In this article we are showing the simple installation steps to follow for the installation of Speedtest-cli.

2. Install Python

Run the following command to install Python on a CentOS 7

#yum install python

Go to /usr/local/src directory in which we can download the speedtest-cli follows

# cd /usr/local/src

3 Download the speedtest-cli

Download the speedtest-cli.py file by running following command

# wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py

Give proper permission for the downloaded file.

# chmod 777 speedtest_cli.py

4 How to test it ?

Run the following script to check the downloaded and uploaded speed .

#./speedtest_cli.py

If you run the script you will get a output like this:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from WorldStream (109.236.84.3)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. (Amsterdam) [33.82 km]: 4.409 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 384.73 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 367.74 Mbit/s

Run the following script to get an image of the result

#./speedtest_cli.py --share

Run following command to combine both results.

#./speedtest_cli.py --bytes

If you run the script you will get a output like this:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Hetzner Online GmbH (138.201.3.30)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by HillCom Solutions (Alsfeld) [33.58 km]: 3.206 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 70.50 Mbyte/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 24.23 Mbyte/s