Query the network speed

Something useful to query the speed of your network. You can do this quite easy with the tool called: ethtool. First you need to install the tool with: sudo apt-get install ethtool

After you’ve installed the network tool you can obtain the speed of the network with the following command:

ethtool eth0

The result looks like:

ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
.....
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full