There is a bug in the default speedtest-cli in the CentOS/Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu Repos. Running speedtest-cli standalone without installing from yum or apt-get resolves the issue.
If you run speedtest-cli standalone, the results are much better.
You can run the below commands to run it standalone:
wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py
chmod +x speedtest-cli
For example, test from the below Los Angeles speed test server:
./speedtest-cli --server 21541
You will see that both the download and upload speeds are then significantly improved, compared to running the speedtest-cli included with the repos.
You can also run the below command to double check the download speeds of your server:
wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
