This simple CMD command lets you measure your real internet speed in seconds

This simple CMD command lets you measure your real internet speed in seconds.

Measuring the speed of our internet connection is simple, at least on paper. The most common way is to use a speed test site, which is the most popular for measuring download and upload speeds. We will explain a method through a lightweight command line interface that will give very accurate results.

If you want to measure your internet download and upload speed, as well as latency, the most used website is "testdevelocity", a very accurate website that allows us to share the result in a very simple way.

In fact, there are many pages that allow you to do this test, although most of them are bad. The problem for most people is the huge amount of ads they have, which affects the final result by consuming bandwidth. We will explain how to measure speed using commands.

Ookla is an American company that specializes in Internet diagnostic services. It offers speed and bandwidth testing tools, in addition to other tools that provide a lightweight command-line interface (CLI) tool for speed testing.

What CLI allows us to do is eliminate the bandwidth consumption of ads on most websites that measure internet traffic. In addition, the load generated by the browser is also eliminated, which is another important little point. 

To perform this test, you must follow these steps:

- Go to this web page to download the CLI application .

- After downloading it, we must unzip the file.

- We write in the Windows search engine “CMD” and click “Run as administrator”.

- We copy the path of the executable file where we saved it.

Add the following to the end of the path: speedtest.exe. For example, if you extracted it in the Windows Pictures folder, put the following command:

- Press "Enter" to start the test.

Once done, it will give us the download and upload speed, as well as the latency in both cases. It also provides us with a URL so we can see the result online and share it.

  Keep in mind that the specific speed you contracted for will never be shown, it will always be lower. This is due to losses in the cable, in the network controller, etc.