Test Internet Script

I wanted to have a script to ensure that the internet connection was up and running. One way to do this quickly was to create a script that could perform a speed test to do this task. In addition to confirming that the internet connection was working, it would also provide the speed of the connection.

#!/bin/bash

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# Description: Tests the connection speed of the internet by downloading a 10 MB
# file from the internet.
# Date: 2015-10
# Author: Kenny Robinson, @almostengr
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## SCRIPT MAIN ##
wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip
Updated: 2023-02-14 | Posted: 2015-10-01
Author: Kenny Robinson, @almostengr