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Speedtest in Terminal

The HomeBrew Logo

I use HomeBrew to download all packages

Open up your terminal

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I use the iTerm.app it's super customizable

Run

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

To install HomeBrew

After it's finished installing, run clear to clean up your terminal

To install the speedtest-cli you'll need to run

brew install speedtest --force speedtest-cli

Run clear to clean up your terminal again..

Then run

speedtest-cli

You'll be left with results sort of like this,

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If you're on WIFI
make sure you switch over to your 5G connection if you have one

I hope I helped. Thanks for stopping by!

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