This isn’t a definitive test of available bandwidth it should help you form an idea of what an Internet link throughput is. wget -O /dev/null avoids skewed results caused by disk performance limitations.

CacheFly
Location: CDN

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

SoftLayer
Location: USA and Amsterdam

wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.ams01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip