Networks SSH Speed test?

I have shell access to a VPS and I wanna know what my upload speed is. Do you know of any way to have this be done?

 

Use SCP to transfer a large file (100MB or something). That will show you the speed through the SSH server.

 

I knew I could always do that, but the thing is, I have a pretty poor connection speed at home (512kbps down) and I know it has an upload faster than that, but I do not know, cause it always maxes out my connection.

 

I have access to a 8MBit Up & down connection, I can test yours if you want, PM me

 

Check your PM's, thanks.

 

YGPM

 

Thanks again man.

 

No problemo!

 

Here's a bash script to test your SSH connection speed, upload and download: http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=635

 

Create a random garbage file on the server in question, then SCP the file to another host.

/dev/zero (very fast)
/dev/random
/dev/urandom (chunks of size you can decide in /proc/sys/kernel/random/pool_size)

time dd if=/dev/zero of=test.bin bs=1000000000 count=1

And then just find another server -- maybe your webhost and upload it via FTP, etc.