Check download speed from Linux Terminal

In this article you'll find how to test Internet speed from the Linux terminal, using speedtest_cli - a simple command-line client written in Python for measuring Internet bandwidth.

I'll show how to simply check download/upload Internet speed

First you need to install python-pip package

apt-get install python-pip

Next you install speedtest-cli via pip.

pip install speedtest-cli

and finally you just simply run speedtest-cli command in your terminal

speedtest-cli