Run Speedtest from command line
The following script allows you to run a speed test against the speedtest.net servers from the Linux command line. It's an improved version of Janhouse's original speedtest script. It allows calculation of an average speed for multiple runs and testing of multiple speedtest.net servers. It is smart enough to take into account any other upload/downloads that may be going on in your system when you are running the speed test, so they do not affect the speed test results.
The script automatically determines an appropriate size of a file for upload/download testing. It does so by trying sizes from small to big, until upload/download takes more than 4 seconds to make it reliable. The possible sizes are contained in the $do_size array.
To make this script run on a Mac you might have to convert line ends (eg CRLF->CR). Also, be sure your iface entry points to the device name you are connecting through, for Mac these may be "en0" without the quotes.
ifconfigSetup
- Make sure you have the proper prerequisites - curl, php5 and php5-curl. For Ubuntu do:
sudo aptitude install curl php5 php5-curl php5-cli
- Create data/ upload/ and temp_down/ folders. Then, in the upload/ folder, run the following script to generate test files:
#!/bin/bash
dd if=/dev/urandom of=upload_1 bs=1K count=100
dd if=/dev/urandom of=upload_2 bs=1K count=500
dd if=/dev/urandom of=upload_3 bs=1M count=1
dd if=/dev/urandom of=upload_4 bs=1M count=3
dd if=/dev/urandom of=upload_5 bs=1M count=6
dd if=/dev/urandom of=upload_6 bs=1M count=10
dd if=/dev/urandom of=upload_7 bs=1M count=20
dd if=/dev/urandom of=upload_8 bs=1M count=50- Get the script below and update the configuration section to specify the servers you want to run the test against. To get a list of all currently available servers browse here or run this command:
curl ''http://www.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers.php'' > testservers.xml
This link may change in the future, but worked fine in Oct 2013.
- $maxrounds specifies a number of tests to run to produce an average speed report.
#!/usr/bin/php5
<?php
/*
* Speedtest.net linux terminal client.
* This is free and open source software by Alex based on a script from Janhouse
* Script uses curl, executes ifconfig commands in shell and writes temporary files in temp_down folder. Make sure you have everything set up before using it.
*/
header("content-type: text/plain");
/* * * Configuration * * */
$iface="eth0";
$maxrounds=4;
$downloads="temp_down/";
$uploads="upload/";
$datadir="data/";
/* * * Speedtest servers * * */
$do_server['seattle'] = "http://speedtest.rainierconnect.com";
$do_server['east oregon'] = "http://speedtest.eotnet.net";
$do_server['portland'] = "http://speed.opusnet.com";
$do_server['estacada,or'] = "http://speed.rconnects.com/";
/* Variables */
$randoms=rand(100000000000, 9999999999999);
$time=time();
$day=date("d-m-Y");
$do_size[1]=500;
$do_size[2]=1000;
$do_size[3]=1500;
$do_size[4]=2000;
$do_size[5]=2500;
$do_size[6]=3000;
$do_size[7]=3500;
$do_size[8]=4000;
/* * * The rest * * */
function latency($round){
global $server, $downloads, $do_server, $server, $iface, $randoms, $do_size,$globallatency,$maxrounds;
$file=$downloads."latency.txt";
$fp = fopen ($file, 'w+');
$ch = curl_init($do_server[$server]."/speedtest/latency.txt?x=".$randoms);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$starttime=microtime(true);
$response=curl_exec($ch);
$endtme=microtime(true);
$duration=$endtme-$starttime;
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
unlink($file);
print round($duration, 2)."sec.";
$globallatency+=$duration;
if ($round > 1){
latency(--$round);
} else {
print "\tAverage:".round($globallatency/$maxrounds, 2)."sec.\n";
}
}
function download($size,$round){
global $server, $downloads, $do_server, $server, $iface, $randoms, $do_size,$globaldownloadspeed,$maxrounds;
$file=$downloads."fails_".$size.".jpg";
print ".";
$fp = fopen ($file, 'w+');
$ln = $do_server[$server]."/speedtest/random".$do_size[$size]."x".$do_size[$size].".jpg?x=".$randoms."-".$size;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$ln);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$starttime=microtime(true);
$sakuma_rx=shell_exec("sudo ifconfig ".$iface."|grep RX\ bytes|awk '{ print $2 }'|cut -d : -f 2");
$response=curl_exec($ch);
$beigu_rx=shell_exec("sudo ifconfig ".$iface."|grep RX\ bytes|awk '{ print $2 }'|cut -d : -f 2");
$endtme=microtime(true);
if ($response === false){
print "Request failed:".curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
#unlink($file);
$duration=$endtme-$starttime;
if($duration<4 && $size!=8) {
download(++$size,$round);
}else{
$sakuma_rx=trim($sakuma_rx);
$beigu_rx=trim($beigu_rx);
$rx=$beigu_rx-$sakuma_rx;
$rx_speed=((($rx*8)/1000)/1000)/$duration;
write_to_file(round($rx_speed, 2), "d");
if($duration<4){
print "Duration is ".round($duration, 2)."sec - this may introduce errors.\n";
}
print round(filesize($file)/1000000,2)."Mb at ".round($rx_speed, 2)."Mb/s";
$globaldownloadspeed+=$rx_speed;
if ($round > 1){
download($size,--$round);
} else {
print "\tAverage: ".round($globaldownloadspeed/$maxrounds, 2)." Mb/s.\n";
}
}
}
function upload($size,$round){
global $server, $uploads, $do_server, $server, $iface, $randoms,$globaluploadspeed,$maxrounds;
$file=$uploads."upload_".$size;
print ".";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $do_server[$server]."/speedtest/upload.php?x=0.".$randoms);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
$post = array(
"file_box"=>"@".$file,
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
$starttime=microtime(true);
$sakuma_tx=shell_exec("sudo ifconfig ".$iface."|grep TX\ bytes|awk '{print $6}'|cut -d: -f2");
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$beigu_tx=shell_exec("sudo ifconfig ".$iface."|grep TX\ bytes|awk '{print $6}'|cut -d: -f2");
$endtme=microtime(true);
if ($response === false){
print "Request failed:".curl_error($ch);
}
$aiznem=substr($response, 5);
$kopa=filesize($file)+$aiznem;
$duration=$endtme-$starttime; // sekundes
if($duration<4 && $size!=8){
#print round(filesize($file)/1000000,2)."Mb is to small: ".round($duration, 2)."sec\n";
upload(++$size,$round);
}else{
$sakuma_tx=trim($sakuma_tx);
$beigu_tx=trim($beigu_tx);
$tx=$beigu_tx-$sakuma_tx;
$tx_speed=((($tx*8)/1000)/1000)/$duration;
write_to_file(round($tx_speed, 2), "u");
if($duration<4){
print "Duration is ".round($duration, 2)."sec - this may introduce errors.\n";
}
print round(filesize($file)/1000000,2)."Mb at ".round($tx_speed, 2)."Mb/s";
$globaluploadspeed+=$tx_speed;
if ($round > 1){
upload($size,--$round);
} else {
print "\tAverage: ".round($globaluploadspeed/$maxrounds, 2)." Mb/s.\n";
}
}
}
function write_to_file($data, $updown){ // u - upload; d - download
global $day, $time, $datadir, $iface;
$fp = fopen($datadir."data_".$day.".txt", "a");
fwrite($fp, $time."|".$updown."|".$iface."|".$data."\n");
fclose($fp);
}
foreach ($do_server as $server => $serverurl){
$globallatency=0;
print "* Testing latency for $server...";
latency($maxrounds);
}
foreach ($do_server as $server => $serverurl){
$globaldownloadspeed=0;
print "* Testing download speed for $server...";
download(1,$maxrounds);
}
foreach ($do_server as $server => $serverurl){
$globaluploadspeed=0;
print "* Testing upload speed $server...";
upload(1,$maxrounds);
}
?>- Run the script from the command line:
php speedtest.php
Just in case, the referrer information for the server query is: "http://c.speedtest.net/flash/speedtest.swf?v=123456" (v=some random number).
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