Command-line speed test?

[Chris Jones]

> One thought I had was maybe there's some command line program I can use 
> to send a file to another server, and view the Kbps reading. Not sure if 
> this would be a true measurement, though. Help is appreciated.

scp ? That gives you a measure of the bandwidth at the command line. 
Just find some large file and transfer it to and from some remote server 
(that has bandwidth at least as good as yours, otherwise you are testing 
their bandwidth ...)

It reports in KB/s (or MB/s) i.w bytes whereas www.speedtest.net. uses 
bits/s, so you will need to do a conversion to be able to compare the two.

Chris