How to check server’s downloading speed

September 8, 2018 at 10:11 pm (last edited September 8, 2018 at 10:13 pm)

Create on server ~20M sized file

dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.download bs=1 count=21911926

Or run just for a second 🙂

yes "some text" > test.download

Then download it on your machine:

curl http://yourservernamehere.com/test.download 1>/dev/null