speedtest-ssh 1.2.0

A tool meant to check inter-device speeds over ssh

speedtest_ssh

A simple tool for a quick and easy speedtest between two machines over ssh

Usage

This tool will attempt to use the ssh config in ~/.ssh/config for fields not provided.

$ speedtest_ssh --help
usage: speedtest_ssh [-h] [--version] [-u USERNAME] [--password PASSWORD] [--port PORT] [--max_seconds MAX_SECONDS] host

positional arguments:
  host                  The host to speedtest the conection to

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        The username to use to ssh
  --password PASSWORD   The password to use to ssh
  --port PORT           The port to use to ssh
  --max_seconds MAX_SECONDS
                        A soft limit for how many seconds to spend uploading / downloading

Notes

1. This will be subject to your disk read/write speed in /tmp on both devices
2. This uses only one TCP connection (like standard scp) rather than multiple like rsync.