I monitor a remote location with a 4G link and one of the metrics I'm interested in is the weather's effect to the quality of the connection. Debian and Ubuntu carry speedtest.net's console client, but no matter what I do, it's outcome is random at best. The same connection over the web browser or app version shows a rather stable 50-something megs, while the speedtest-cli fluctuates wildly between 20 and 50 megs between the tests.
I had assumed the Linux client offered by speedtest.net was exactly same thing carried by distributions, but apparently I was wrong. With their own command line client I can finally see what I believe to be realistic values.
Installation instructions for it are here: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli
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