speedtest-cli is a very useful command line tool for SysAdmin or users with shell access to quickly test the download, upload and ping speed of the Linux server.
Below we will cover the installation on CentOS/RedHat , Ubuntu/Debian and the manual way that will work for any other Linux distribution.
Almalinux/RedHat
Install the epel release repository
Install python3 and python3-pip and update pip
Install speedtest-cli with pip3
Ubuntu
Update server packages
Install python3 , python3-pip and update pip3
Install speedtest-cli with pip3
Other Linux/UNIX distributions
Make sure python3 is installed on your server
Download speedtest-cli
Change file permissions for execution
Note: Some firewalls may prevent the test from working properly by generating a “0 Mbps” download/upload result.
Example commands for speedtest-cli
Run the command below to start the speed test
Example of result
To run the test and generate the Speedtest link with the result:
Below is an example of the result
