How to test speed of my network

If you're on Linux, you can just type below via ssh

wget rentvps.com/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash

or

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -



If not, speed depends on network speed at the other end, and also the distance between the 2, the furthest away the 2 locations, the slower speed you'll get

Download 100MB file from cachefly: wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

Download 100MB file from Seattle: wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

Download 100MB file from Dallas : wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

Download 100MB file from San Jose: wget -O /dev/null http://50.23.64.58/downloads/test100.zip

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