Edit Section: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Human Beans

!!# Test internet connection

You can use seceral programs, each one with its pros and cons. A good advice is to use several to combine info to answer your own questions effectively without confusion (if you use wifi repeaters, or different hardware devices, bytes or bits in units, etc)

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Console-based programs:

* -+wavemon+-: ncurses based, updated in realtime, showing mac address of the wifi device for instance to which it's connected (useful to distinguish wifi repeater device from wifi source signal device).

* -+speedtest-cli+-: simple yet useful information of upload and download speed (doing tests). You can show bytes or bits as units, and display simple output.

* -+speedometer+-: nice log with bar chart evolution in terminal, but it shows current use, not doing a tgest on its own. You need to run some big upload or download of data to see it reflected in the graph.

* -+vnstat+-: logs network trafic data and has several useful ways to report usages, etc. See: https://humdi.net/vnstat/

* and a few others (see below)

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Log of some commands used during some tests

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sudo apt install speedtest-cli

speedtest-cli

speedtest-cli --bytes

speedtest-cli --simple

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sudo apt install speedometer

speedometer -r eth0

ifconfig

speedometer -r enx000ec6a79da9

speedometer -r wlp1s0

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nmcli dev wifi

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watch -n 1 cat /proc/net/wireless

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iwconfig wlp1s0  | grep -i --color quality

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wavemon

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sudo apt install vnstat

vnstat

vnstat -l -i enx000ec6a79da9

vnstat -l -i wlp1s0

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