How to view Real time Internet usage using terminal?

Question

Uplink and Downlink speeds, other statistics etc without third party software

Solution

I use iftop.

Install it (290 KB) with sudo apt-get install iftop and start with sudo iftop.

Should you wish to monitor wireless internet traffic, use sudo iftop -i wlp3s0,

where -i referes to interface, and wlp3s0 is my wireless interface (check yours by running lspci.

Comments

[Christopher Angulo-Bertram]

Are you just looking for the local machine statistics, or your whole network?