How to Test Internet Connection Speed in CentOS 8

How to Test Internet Connection Speed in CentOS 8

Test or check internet connection speed in centOS 8; Through this tutorial, we will learn how to check or test internet connection speed in centOS 8.

Sometimes we face slow internet speed in our system or take new internet connection. Then we have to test the internet speed. There are so many online tools that we can know the internet speed of our system. But in this tutorial, we started installing ookla tool to check internet speed. And with this, we will test the internet speed of our centOS system.

How to Test Internet Connection Speed in CentOS 8

Follow the following 2 steps to check or test internent connection speed in centOS 8:

  • Step 1 – Install Speedtest CLI
  • Step 2 – Test Internet Connection Speed

Step 1 – Install Speedtest CLI

First of all, open terminal and execute the following command into it to download speedtest cli repository:

wget https://bintray.com/ookla/rhel/rpm -O speedtest.repo

Then execute the following command on terminal to move this repository to the system repository:

sudo mv speedtest.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/

Also, Check if other versions are installed on the system of speedtest cli repository by executing the following command on terminal:

rpm -qa | grep speedtest

If the repository is already installed. So remove it from the system using the command given below:

sudo dnf remove speedtest-cli

Then execute the following command on terminal to install the official version of Speedtest CLI:

sudo dnf install speedtest

Step 2 – Test Internet Connection Speed

Now, execute the following command on terminal to test internet speed in centos:

speedtest

And if want to see the options of speedtest cli, then can execute the command given below on the terminal:

speedtest -h

Conclusion

That’s it, Through this tutorial, we have learned how to check or test internet connection speed in centOS 8.

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