So to monitor the network download speed of a Wi-Fi connection for instance, use the below command in your Terminal window. If you have an Ethernet card, then it’s called “eth0”. If you use a Wi-Fi connection (or wireless in general), then the interface name is “wlan0”. If interested, you can install “speedometer” (written by Ian Ward, thanks!) in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 and 10.04 by using the below command in your Terminal window.īefore you can measure the network speeds, first you have to figure out the type of connection (the interface’s name) you have. ![]() Can be setup to use plain text rather than graphs (disabled by default). Monitors network interfaces (upload & download) and your file system. Supports few built in color depths (1,16-default, 88 and 256), higher numbers mean better quality outputs. Change update intervals (default is “1” second). As you can see, although it’s a command-line based tool, yet it has pretty vivid colors and other stuff that makes it a pretty user friendly tool. Then again, system monitor shows speeds in graphs too, however, it does not print peak values on top of graphs, which is pretty useful otherwise. ![]() But “speedometer” is a graph based tool that prints the peak speed values on top of graphs (as shown below), so you can get a better idea about the speeds as both “ system monitor” and Nautilus don’t have those features. However, Ubuntu comes with a system monitor that shows you the current network speeds and while copying a file, Nautilus shows you the speeds too. Although it’s not a network benchmarking tool (can be used as a file system benchmarking utility!) in a way, you can use it as such a tool as well (more below). ![]() “Speedometer” is a command-line based (pretty darn easy to use though!) utility that has the ability to monitor the current download/upload speeds of the network connections plus, the speeds of the file systems (while copying something).
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