In this article, we are going to see how to check your system’s internet speed from Linux terminal using Fast.com, it is a web-based application and used to check internet speed. Netflix owned these tools as speed testing services. It is free, fast, and easy to use.
Installation:
Installing into the current directory
Step 1: Download the file from GitHub source, you can use curl or wget commands for this:
$ curl -L https://github.com/ddo/fast/releases/download/v0.0.4/fast_linux_amd64 -o fast
OR
$ wget https://github.com/ddo/fast/releases/download/v0.0.4/fast_linux_amd64 -O fast
Step 2: Giver permission to the file.
chmod +x fast
Step 3: Run the application.
./fast
Installing into the bin directory
Step 1: Download from the github source using wget.
wget https://github.com/ddo/fast/releases/download/v0.0.4/fast_linux_amd64
Step 2: Check the downloaded file.
ls fast_linux_amd64
Step 3: Now install this file into the bin directory.
sudo install fast_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/fast
Step 4: Run this file.
fast