How to Test Your Internet Connection Speed Easily

Want to know how fast is your internet speed how fast your Internet connection really is?Today I am going to show you how you can test your Internet connection speed with a simple command.As we all know the internet speed depends upon many factors from number of users and many other factors hence your internet connection speed is always different from one which you have been told by your internet service providers.

Here is the way to test your Internet connection speed:

1 To test your Internet connection speed In Linux

open a terminal and type the following:

wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip

this command download a 10M file to your computer. However, since you are pointing the destination folder to “/dev/null”, no file are being saved to your hard drive. The file are discarded on arrival.