[How To] Speed Test your Internet Connection Speeds for Selfhosting

What is the aim of this test? It is written LAN, but tested is WAN.

To test speed in LAN you need at least 2 devices and measure speed between them.

E.g. to run speed test form the command line, simply use one of following commands:

wget -O /dev/null http://download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip
wget -O /dev/null http://speedcheck.lab.vodafone.de/1G
wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip
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