How to measure network contention

Question

I have rasberry pi with a 3G shield connected to it. Is there a way to gather metrics about the network such as available data capacity/throughput, latency and way to measure contention on the network?

Answer 1

I am assuming that you want to know the statistics for your connection to the internet.

There is a great Command-Line tool for this by sivel which you can install from the command line using:

sudo pip install speedtest-cli

or

sudo easy_install speedtest-cli

and then just run it with the command:

speedtest-cli

and it will give you the results.

For more information please see the project page on GitHub: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli