How do I test the upload and download speeds for Object Storage?

Currently, testing the speed for Object Storage is not an option on our Speed Test page. You can still test the upload/download speeds for object storage in our Newark data center by using wget to test the speed:

wget http://speedtest.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/1GB_test.file

That will test the networking speed for a 1GB file. To test bigger sizes:

Test a 1GB file:
wget http://speedtest.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/1GB_test.file

Test a 10GB file:
wget http://speedtest.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/10GB_test.file

Test a 50GB file:
wget http://speedtest.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/50GB_test.file

I am unaware of a way to test the networking speed for Object Storage in Frankfurt at this time. I have reached out to my colleagues to see if there is a way to do this that I'm unaware of, or if we can get this up and running.

I stand corrected: to test this in the Frankfurt data center:
10MB file:
wget http://eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/speedtest/10MB-speedtest

100MB file:
wget http://eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/speedtest/100MB-speedtest

1GB file:
wget http://eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/speedtest/1GB-speedtest

100GB file:
wget http://eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/speedtest/10GB-speedtest

hi @watrick how can I get a test for SG datacenter?
thank you!

@mahasadhu For Singapore, the speed test options would be:

Test a 1GB file:
wget http://speedtest.ap-south-1.linodeobjects.com/1GB_test.file
Test a 10GB file:
wget http://speedtest.ap-south-1.linodeobjects.com/10GB_test.file
Test a 50GB file:
wget http://speedtest.ap-south-1.linodeobjects.com/50GB_test.file

If you want to test this to see speeds with IPv6 networking, you can simply add the -6 flag to the wget command:

wget -6 http://speedtest.ap-south-1.linodeobjects.com/1GB_test.file

Is there a mechanism to test the upload speed?

@JP - Someone else might have a better way to do this, though for testing upload speeds, you could use the s3cmd tool to find out how quickly files get uploaded.

For example, I took a test file and uploaded it to one of my buckets in Newark using s3cmd as follows (output is truncated), and I saw upload speeds between ~4 - 10MB/s.

s3cmd put 1GB_test.file s3://my-bucket -P
WARNING: Module python-magic is not available. Guessing MIME types based on file extensions.
upload: '1GB_test.file' -> 's3://my-bucket/1GB_test.file'  [part 1 of 69, 15MB] [1 of 1]
 15728640 of 15728640   100% in    2s     5.61 MB/s  done
upload: '1GB_test.file' -> 's3://my-bucket/1GB_test.file'  [part 2 of 69, 15MB] [1 of 1]
 15728640 of 15728640   100% in    1s     9.31 MB/s  done
upload: '1GB_test.file' -> 's3://my-bucket/1GB_test.file'  [part 3 of 69, 15MB] [1 of 1]
 15728640 of 15728640   100% in    1s     9.87 MB/s  done
upload: '1GB_test.file' -> 's3://my-bucket/1GB_test.file'  [part 4 of 69, 15MB] [1 of 1]
 15728640 of 15728640   100% in    1s    10.36 MB/s  done
upload: '1GB_test.file' -> 's3://my-bucket/1GB_test.file'  [part 5 of 69, 15MB] [1 of 1]
 15728640 of 15728640   100% in    1s    10.38 MB/s  done
[...]
upload: '1GB_test.file' -> 's3://my-bucket/1GB_test.file'  [part 69 of 69, 4MB] [1 of 1]
 4194304 of 4194304   100% in    0s     4.86 MB/s  done

If you are seeing lower upload speeds than you'd hope/expect, running MTR reports to each Object Storage endpoint can help diagnose where along the route latency is increasing.

For example, with Newark:

mtr -rwbzc100 us-east-1.linodeobjects.com