How to install Speedtest.net on a Synology NAS for internet speedtest

Have a site without a server and want to test the speed?

Login to Synology using SSH via Putty and navigate to somewhere writable e.g. Volume1

cd /Volumes/Volume1/

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py

Make the speedtest.py script executable.

chmod +x speedtest.py

Run SpeedTest
./speedtest.py

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