Found out by chance, while trying to figure out why my WiFi signal is so unreliable, that there is a CLI app for running speed tests (by https://speedtest.net).
Here it is: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli
Since I am using Linux mint, and their bash script adding apt-get repositories is not working for me, here are the packages to download: https://packagecloud.io/ookla/speedtest-cli. Which can then be installed via dpkg -i
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$ speedtest
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: XXX - XXX (id: XXX)
ISP: XXX
Idle Latency: 5.01 ms (jitter: 0.37ms, low: 4.88ms, high: 5.58ms)
Download: 33.91 Mbps (data used: 52.7 MB)
138.85 ms (jitter: 53.80ms, low: 7.52ms, high: 787.10ms)
Upload: 15.14 Mbps (data used: 24.2 MB)
118.68 ms (jitter: 41.07ms, low: 17.78ms, high: 335.60ms)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/XXXX