How to test Internet connection speed from command line?

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Published on 2009-01-08T22:24:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 0:13 UTC
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There's plenty of websites for it, but they're all Flash, not of much use for servers without graphics mode. Any tool I can use to test up/down bandwidth from Linux command line?

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