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SPEEDTEST(5)		       Speedtest 1.2.0.84		  SPEEDTEST(5)

NAME
       speedtest  - Speedtest CLI by Ookla is the official command line	client
       for testing the speed and performance of	your internet connection.

SYNOPSIS
       speedtest [help]	[-aAbBfhiIpPsv]	[--ca-certificate=path]	[--format=for-
       mat-type] [--interface=interface]  [--ip=ip_address]  [--output-header]
       [--precision=num_decimal_places]	 [--progress=yes|no]  [--selection-de-
       tails] [--server-id=id]	[--servers]  [--unit=unit-of-measure]  [--ver-
       sion]

DESCRIPTION
       speedtest  is  an application that measures the latency,	jitter,	packet
       loss, download bandwidth, and upload bandwidth of the  network  connec-
       tion between the	client and a nearby Speedtest Server.

OPTIONS
       -h, --help
	      Print usage information

       -v     Logging  verbosity,  specify multiple times for higher verbosity
	      (e.g. -vvv)

       -V, --version
	      Print version number

       -L, --servers
	      List nearest servers

       --selection-details
	      Show server selection details

       -s id, --server-id=id
	      Specify a	server from the	server list using its id

       -o hostname, --host=hostname
	      Specify a	server from the	server list using its hostname

       -f format_type, --format=format_type
	      Output format (default is	human-readable).  See  OUTPUT  FORMATS
	      below for	details.

       --progress-update-interval=interval
	      Progress update interval (100-1000 milliseconds)

       --output-header
	      Show output header for CSV and TSV formats

       -u unit_of_measure, --unit=unit_of_measure
	      Output  unit for displaying speeds when using the	human-readable
	      output format. The default unit is Mbps. See  UNITS  OF  MEASURE
	      for more details.

       -a     Shortcut for [-u auto-decimal-bits]

       -A     Shortcut for [-u auto-decimal-bytes]

       -b     Shortcut for [-u auto-binary-bits]

       -B     Shortcut for [-u auto-binary-bytes]

       -P decimal_places, --precision=decimal_places
	      Number of	decimal	places to use (default = 2, valid = 0-8). Only
	      applicable to the	human-readable output format.

       -p yes|no, --progress=yes|no
	      Enable or	disable	progress bar (default is yes when interactive)

       -I interface, --interface=interface
	      Attempt  to  bind	 to the	specified interface when connecting to
	      servers

       -i ip_address, --ip=ip_address
	      Attempt to bind to the specified IP address when	connecting  to
	      servers

       --ca-certificate=path
	      Path to CA Certificate bundle, see SSL CERTIFICATE LOCATIONS be-
	      low.

OUTPUT FORMATS
       These are the available output formats for Speedtest CLI	specified with
       the -f or --format flags. All machine readable formats (csv, tsv, json,
       jsonl,  json-pretty)  use  bytes	 for data sizes, bytes per seconds for
       speeds and milliseconds for durations. They  also  always  use  maximum
       precision output.

       human-readable
	      human readable output

       csv    comma separated values

       tsv    tab separated values

       json   javascript object	notation (compact)

       jsonl  javascript object	notation (lines)

       json-pretty
	      javascript object	notation (pretty)

UNITS OF MEASURE
       For  the	human-readable output format, you can specify the unit of mea-
       sure to use. The	default	unit is	Mbps. The supported units  are	listed
       below.

       These  units  do	 not  apply  to	machine	readable output	formats	(json,
       jsonl, csv and tsv).

   Decimal options (multipliers	of 1000)
       bps    bits per second

       kbps   kilobits per second

       Mbps   megabits per second

       Gbps   gigabits per second

       B/s    bytes per	second

       kB/s   kilobytes	per second

       MB/s   megabytes	per second

       GB/s   gigabytes	per second

   Binary options (multipliers of 1024)
       kibps  kibibits per second

       Mibps  mebibits per second

       Gibps  gibibits per second

       kiB/s  kibibytes	per second

       MiB/s  mebibytes	per second

       GiB/s  gibibytes	per second

   Auto-scaling	options
       Automatic units will scale the prefix depending on the measured speed.

       auto-decimal-bits
	      automatic	in decimal bits

       auto-decimal-bytes
	      automatic	in decimal bytes

       auto-binary-bits
	      automatic	in binary bits

       auto-binary-bytes
	      automatic	in binary bytes

TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY	NOTICES
       You may only use	this Speedtest software	and information	generated from
       it for personal,	non-commercial use, through a command  line  interface
       on a personal computer. Your use	of this	software is subject to the End
       User License Agreement, Terms of	Use and	Privacy	Policy at these	URLs:

          https://www.speedtest.net/about/eula

          https://www.speedtest.net/about/terms

          https://www.speedtest.net/about/privacy

OUTPUT
       Upon  successful	execution, the application will	exit with an exit code
       of 0. The result	will include latency, jitter, download,	upload,	packet
       loss (where available), and a result URL.

       Latency and jitter will be represented in  milliseconds.	 Download  and
       upload  units will depend on the	output format as well as if a unit was
       specified. The human-readable format  defaults  to  Mbps	 and  any  ma-
       chine-readable  formats	(csv, tsv, json, jsonl,	json-pretty) use bytes
       as the unit of measure with max precision. Packet loss  is  represented
       as  a  percentage,  or Not available when packet	loss is	unavailable in
       the executing network environment.

       The bytes per second measurements  can  be  transformed	into  the  hu-
       man-readable  output format default unit	of megabits (Mbps) by dividing
       the bytes per second value by 125,000. For example:

       38404104	bytes per second = 38404104 / 125 =  307232.832	 kilobits  per
       second =	307232.832 / 1000 = 307.232832 megabits	per second

       The value 125 is	derived	from 1000 / 8 as follows:

       1 byte =	8 bits 1 kilobit = 1000	bits

       38404104	bytes per second = 38404104 * 8	bits per byte =	307232832 bits
       per  second  =  307232832 / 1000	bits per kilobit = 307232.832 kilobits
       per second

       The Result URL is available to share your result, appending .png	to the
       Result URL will create a	shareable result image.

       Example human-readable result:

	   $ speedtest
	      Speedtest	by Ookla

		 Server: SUNET - Stockholm (id:	26852)
		    ISP: Bahnhof AB
	   Idle	Latency:     5.04 ms   (jitter:	0.04ms,	low: 5.01ms, high: 5.07ms)
	       Download:   968.73 Mbps (data used: 117.5 MB)
			    12.10 ms   (jitter:	1.71ms,	low: 6.71ms, high: 18.82ms)
		 Upload:   942.13 Mbps (data used: 114.8 MB)
			     9.94 ms   (jitter:	1.10ms,	low: 5.30ms, high: 12.72ms)
	    Packet Loss:     0.0%
	     Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/d1c46724-50a3-4a59-87ca-ffc09ea014b2

NETWORK	TIMEOUT	VALUES
       By default, network requests set	a timeout of 10	seconds. The only  ex-
       ception to this is latency testing, which sets a	timeout	of 15 seconds.

FATAL ERRORS
       Upon fatal errors, the application will exit with a non-zero exit code.

       Initialization Fatal Error Examples:

       Configuration - Couldn't	connect	to server (Network is unreachable)

       Configuration  -	 Could	not retrieve or	read configuration (Configura-
       tionError)

       Stage Execution Fatal Error Example:

       [error] Error: [1] Latency test failed for HTTP

       [error] Error: [36] Cannot open socket: Operation now in	progress

       [error] Failed to resolve host name. Cancelling test suite.

       [error] Host resolve failed: Exec format	error

       [error] Cannot open socket: No route to host

       [error] Server Selection	-  Failed  to  find  a	working	 test  server.
       (NoServers)

SSL CERTIFICATE	LOCATIONS
       By  default  the	following paths	are checked for	CA certificate bundles
       on linux	machines:

	   /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
	   /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
	   /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
	   /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
	   /etc/ssl/cert.pem

       If the device under test	does not  have	one  of	 the  above  mentioned
       files, then the canonical and up	to date	CA certificate bundle provided
       by  the	curl  project can be manually downloaded into a	specific loca-
       tion. This specific location can	be provided as	a  parameter  per  the
       following example:

	   wget	https://curl.se/ca/cacert.pem

RELEASE	NOTES
   1.2.0 (2022-07-27)
          Cleaned  up formatting in human-readable output for additional data
	   within parenthesis (now using label:	value consistently)

          Compressed result upload data to reduce data	usage

          Added support for measuring responsiveness (latency during load)

          Added experimental support for multi-server testing

          Updated third-party dependencies:  cURL  7.83.1,  mbed  TLS	3.1.0,
	   Boost 1.79.0

          Added stability improvements

   1.1.1 (2021-11-15)
          Fixed issue with reported client version in uploaded	results

   1.1.0 (2021-10-27)
          Use server-side upload measurements

          Performance enhancement on upload tests for CPU constrained devices

          Security enhancements

          Fix for deadlock bug

          Fix crash due to race condition

          Fix crash in	hostname resolution during test	initialization

          Fix potential buffer	overflow

          Update Boost	to 1.77.0

          Update mbed TLS to 2.27.0

          Update cURL to 7.78.0

   1.0.0 (2019-10-29)
          Initial release

COPYRIGHT NOTICES FOR THIRD-PARTY PRODUCTS/LIBRARIES
       This  software incorporates free	and open source	third-party libraries,
       including:

          boost https://www.boost.org/

          libcurl https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/

          petopt https://www.lysator.liu.se/~pen/petopt/

          mbed	TLS https://tls.mbed.org/

          ca-certificates extract https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

          L.	     Peter	  Deutschs	   md5	       https://source-
	   forge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/files/

          getopt.h in%20Windows%20version%20of%20this%20software

          tiny-aes https://github.com/kokke/tiny-AES-c

          PicoSHA2 https://github.com/okdshin/PicoSHA2

          musl	https://www.musl-libc.org/

       Inclusion  of  mbed TLS is subject to presentation of the following li-
       cense terms to recipients of this  software:  http://www.apache.org/li-
       censes/LICENSE-2.0  (a copy of which is included	with the documentation
       of this software)

   Inclusion of	libcurl	is subject to distribution of the  software  with  the
       following notice:
       Copyright (c) 1996 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, and many contributors,
       see the THANKS file.  All rights	reserved.  Permission to use, copy, modify, and	distribute
       this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that
       the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

   Inclusion  of  getopt.h is subject to distribution of the software with the
       following notice:
       DISCLAIMER
       This file is part of the	mingw-w64 runtime package.

       The mingw-w64 runtime package and its code is distributed in the	hope that it
       will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.	 ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR
       IMPLIED ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED.  This includes but is not	limited	to
       warranties of MERCHANTABILITY or	FITNESS	FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

       Copyright (c) 2002 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>

       Permission to use, copy,	modify,	and distribute this software for any
       purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the	above
       copyright notice	and this permission notice appear in all copies.

       Copyright (c) 2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
       All rights reserved.

       This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
       by Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner.

       Redistribution and use in source	and binary forms, with or without
       modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
       are met:
       1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
	  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
       2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce	the above copyright
	  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
	  documentation	and/or other materials provided	with the distribution.

   Inclusion of	PicoSHA2 is subject to distribution of the software  with  the
       following notice:
       Copyright (c) 2017 okdshin

       Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to	any person obtaining a copy
       of this software	and associated documentation files (the	"Software"), to	deal
       in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
       to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
       copies of the Software, and to permit persons to	whom the Software is
       furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

       The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
       copies or substantial portions of the Software.

   Inclusion  of musl is subject to distribution of the	software with the fol-
       lowing notice:
       Copyright  2005-2019 Rich Felker, et al.

       Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to	any person obtaining
       a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
       "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
       without limitation the rights to	use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
       distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
       permit persons to whom the Software is furnished	to do so, subject to
       the following conditions:

       The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
       included	in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Ookla				   July	2022			  SPEEDTEST(5)

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