Checking download speed without flash

[NickStone]

For those of you who have removed / disabled flash and is interested in checking your broadband speed there is a service available that will allow you to do that using HTML5.

Check out http://speedof.me/

[Feathers McGraw]

There's also speedtest-cli

eathers-mcgraw@Hobbs-T440s:~$ apt-cache show speedtest-cli
Package: speedtest-cli
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 89
Maintainer: Jonathan Carter <jonathan@ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.3.1-1
Depends: python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8), python-pkg-resources
Filename: pool/universe/s/speedtest-cli/speedtest-cli_0.3.1-1_all.deb
Size: 12316
MD5sum: 425796b0be89ae4941bcf44001432c29
SHA1: 6a3732ead54ccfc3c40f9634dbe251f14d8812e2
SHA256: 0f8c202df708e91226133744c9a95df4b97afe716112daf1e1cd3bdb2f4fac40
Description-en: Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net
 Speedtest.net is a webservice that allows you to test your broadband
 connection by downloading a file from one of many Speedtest.net
 servers from around the world.
 .
 This utility allows you to use the Speedtest.net service from the
 command line.
Description-md5: 888d0651505664258c3520e3dca98297
Homepage: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

[vinnywright]

There's also speedtest-cli

eathers-mcgraw@Hobbs-T440s:~$ apt-cache show speedtest-cli
Package: speedtest-cli
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 89
Maintainer: Jonathan Carter <jonathan@ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.3.1-1
Depends: python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8), python-pkg-resources
Filename: pool/universe/s/speedtest-cli/speedtest-cli_0.3.1-1_all.deb
Size: 12316
MD5sum: 425796b0be89ae4941bcf44001432c29
SHA1: 6a3732ead54ccfc3c40f9634dbe251f14d8812e2
SHA256: 0f8c202df708e91226133744c9a95df4b97afe716112daf1e1cd3bdb2f4fac40
Description-en: Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net
 Speedtest.net is a webservice that allows you to test your broadband
 connection by downloading a file from one of many Speedtest.net
 servers from around the world.
 .
 This utility allows you to use the Speedtest.net service from the
 command line.
Description-md5: 888d0651505664258c3520e3dca98297
Homepage: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

yes this works well and will even give you a URL for sharing the results with the --share switch

VINNY

[DoYouKubuntu]

For those of you who have removed / disabled flash and is interested in checking your broadband speed there is a service available that will allow you to do that using HTML5.

Check out http://speedof.me/

Nice. Thanks for sharing.