Scriptable speedtest for network connection?

[M D L]

Ok, the wikipedia page does list several public servers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf

i.e. 
iperf --client iperf.scottlinux.com --parallel 4 --udp
iperf --client iperf.scottlinux.com --parallel 4

Output:

------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to iperf.scottlinux.com, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  6] local 172.24.01.60 port 55321 connected with 173.230.156.66 port 5001
[  3] local 172.24.01.60 port 55318 connected with 173.230.156.66 port 5001
[  4] local 172.24.01.60 port 55319 connected with 173.230.156.66 port 5001
[  5] local 172.24.01.60 port 55320 connected with 173.230.156.66 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  6]  0.0-10.3 sec  2.88 MBytes  2.35 Mbits/sec
[  4]  0.0-10.3 sec  3.12 MBytes  2.55 Mbits/sec
[  5]  0.0-10.9 sec  3.12 MBytes  2.41 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-11.6 sec  3.00 MBytes  2.17 Mbits/sec
[SUM]  0.0-11.6 sec  12.1 MBytes  8.78 Mbits/sec


On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:29:25 -0500
M D L <41magnum at liberty.eprci.com> wrote:

> iperf is generally used for testing speeds.  If you do a search, you can find several public iperf servers that you can test with.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:22:29 -0500
> Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> 
> > I am experiencing ISP network speed issues at home.  They appear to be 
> > in my ISP's network.  Does anyone know of a script-able speedtest that I 
> > can run with a cron job that logs the speedtest  results? I'd like to 
> > record what I am getting, vs. what I am paying for.  Any suggestions?
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