How To Test Internet Speed In CentOS 7

1. First, log in to your Linux VPS (via Putty software).

2. Then enter the following command to install Python.

yum install -y python

3. After installing python, enter the following command to download SpeedTest-Cli on your server.

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

Note: If wget is not installed on your server, you can install it with this command.

yum install wget

4. After downloading the SpeedTest tool, enter the following command to give it executable access.

chmod +x speedtest-cli

5. After completing the above steps, enter the following command to start the speed test.

./speedtest-cli

6. After entering the above command, the SpeedTest tool will start communicating with the server and the output will be similar to the following.

Testing download speed........................................ 
Download: 836.18 Mbit/s 
Testing upload speed.......................................... 
Upload: 864.97 Mbit

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