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My Pi is connected over a fast wireless network connection, which is connected to
a 75 Mbps downstream bandwidth. In the following screenshot, you can see that I
achieve about 4.27 Mbps. This varies greatly from site to site. The server used here
is in America.
Advanced benchmarking tools
You may be a bit more serious about the performance of your network. Here are a
few advanced ways to push your network to the maximum.
Speedtest application
There is a speedtest application available on github . It is more advanced than the
command line technique, it automatically picks the nearest server and starts to
download a large file from there. The benefit of using the closest server is that it
will better demonstrate the maximum capacity of your wireless network or your ISP
downstream using a wired connection. Furthermore, the application benchmarks
your upstream bandwidth. This may be important to you if you were thinking of
hosting applications for publically using the Internet.
We will need to install git using aptitude's package manager. We do this by typing in
apt-get into the command line.
sudo apt-get install git-core
Follow the on-screen instructions to install the git package. Using the /tmp directory
is ideal for short-term applications. This directory in Raspbian is mounted as a RAM
drive, and any contents stored there will be lost after a reboot or power failure. If you
wish to keep the speedtest application for future use, create a new directory in your
home directory and update the path as appropriate.
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli.git
cd speedtest-cli
./speedtest.py
 
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