We are all used to running speed checkers for our broadband at home, so traditional system admin ways of using scp or iftop or bmon seem overly complex by comparison. Here is one that just delivers the maximum upload and download speeds.

dnf install speedtest-cli

speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Janet University Network (192.168.0.1)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Hyperoptic Limited (Manchester) [234.55 km]: 11.766 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 1431.40 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 1400.82 Mbit/s


See <a href="https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli" data-type="link" data-id="https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli">https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli</a>