upload speed is reported wrong

[Redstorm]

speedtest-cli version 2.0.0 installed from repo miss reports upload speed.

Upload speed is capped at 4.12Mbit/s but link is capable of 430Mbit/s, dose not matter which server you use to test against its always capped at 4.12Mbit/s upload

Tested using 2.1.1 and got 166Mbits/s upload. Windows PC on same network got 430Mbit/s upload

2.0.0
speedtest-cli --server 5539
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from 2degrees Broadband (203.86.204.88)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Retrieving information for the selected server...
Hosted by 2degrees (Auckland) [1.37 km]: 3.033 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 892.48 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 4.13 Mbit/s

2.1.1
./speedtest.py --server 5539
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from 2degrees Broadband (203.86.204.88)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Retrieving information for the selected server...
Hosted by 2degrees (Auckland) [1.37 km]: 3.069 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 880.28 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 166.86 Mbit/s

https://www.speedtest.net/result/8256366032

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04

speedtest-cli:
  Installed: 2.0.0-1
  Candidate: 2.0.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0-1 500
        500 http://us1.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://us1.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expect the upload speed to be reported correctly.

[Redstorm (spencer-roff)]

./speedtest.py --server 5539
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from 2degrees Broadband (203.86.204.88)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Retrieving information for the selected server...
Hosted by 2degrees (Auckland) [1.37 km]: 3.011 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 890.97 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 302.73 Mbit/s

Another run with 302 using version 2.1.1 of the python script.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ben (bcannon)]

Just wanted to mention that I see this across multiple hardware platforms, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[Ethan Matten (ethanm22)]

nothing to do with hardware in any way, it was an issue with the script and was fixed a while ago, but the publisher didn't make it available for older versions

[hackeron (hackeron)]

I've got the same issue :( - any solution?

[Hendrik Brinkmann (henok321)]

I have solved the problem by installing speedtest-cli via pip (python package manager) instead of apt. The pip package contains the bugfix.

https://pypi.org/project/speedtest-cli/

[Matthew Brantley (mbrantley)]

When running speedtest-cli on python 2.7 installed via apt I was seeing:

Upload: 3.91 Mbit/s

I removed the package, installed python & pip, installed speedtest-cli via pip and received:

Upload: 43.27 Mbit/s

Thank you for the workaround!

[Nathan O'Sullivan (nathan-mammoth)]

I ran git bisect against upstream and identified the patch fixes this bug - it is https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/commit/a8a32650015997f7847f2de72a29ff7906f53d8a

It is tiny and applies cleanly against Ubuntu's 2.0.0-1 package, hopefully it is acceptable to merge?

[Nathan O'Sullivan (nathan-mammoth)]

Forgot to mention, I confirmed the patch does resolve the issue:

# speedtest-cli --no-download
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Mammoth Media Pty (103.1.186.209)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Telstra (Chatswood) [6.11 km]: 1.056 ms
Skipping download test
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 1.67 Mbit/s

# patch /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py speedtest.patch
patching file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1474 (offset -48 lines).

# speedtest-cli --no-download
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Mammoth Media Pty (103.1.186.209)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Telstra (Chatswood) [6.11 km]: 1.093 ms
Skipping download test
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 931.40 Mbit/s

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[Nathan O'Sullivan (nathan-mammoth)]

I'm unclear why this has been marked as "Fix Released"? The bionic package has not been updated.

[Yury (aero)]

I confirm.
Issue still exist.

[Marc Michele (easyone)]

Problem still exist. Cost me some time to figure out.

[betteropensource (betteropensource)]

I also had this problem.

Following the instructions on the official website it works.

Go here: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

First, remove actual speedtest if installed.

Follow the official instructions:
sudo apt-get install gnupg1 apt-transport-https dirmngr
export INSTALL_KEY=379CE192D401AB61
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys $INSTALL_KEY
echo "deb https://ookla.bintray.com/debian generic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/speedtest.list
sudo apt-get update
# Other non-official binaries will conflict with Speedtest CLI
# Example how to remove using apt-get
# sudo apt-get remove speedtest-cli
sudo apt-get install speedtest

Run speedtest