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Test your download speed via the command line with wget.
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| wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip |
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Thanks, really helpful to test network bandwidth on a Linux system, where you have wget only (which is there by default on most distros) and cannot install anything else like the ookla speedtest package (due to missing privileges, or dpkg /apt being in a broken state, as I experienced it).