Automatic ISP Speed Testing + Recording Results
reddit / BSD

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abbley · 2019-03-23 03:12

I am looking to run automatic ISP speed tests at prescribed intervals
(Every 5-10 minutes) on my BSD server. I also need to have the results
recorded so I can use them for troubleshooting purposes. It would be
great if the solution also recorded other connection particulars such
as response time, jitter, etc.

If you know of any solution that addresses these needs please let me
know! Thank you!

 

**Update - Solved:**

I found that a combination between [speedtest-
cli](https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli) and [speed-
logger](https://github.com/ericmann/speed-logger) was the perfect
setup. Not only does it autolog the information I want in a file, it
also graphs it in the CLI and on a web interface. Pretty dang cool.

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bobobo1618 · 2019-03-23 06:32

Cron + speedtest-cli and maybe fping for latency/jitter.

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abbley · 2019-03-23 17:10

coolio ill look into this, thank you

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BlindTreeFrog · 2019-03-24 00:36

I used to run a script on my router that would download a random 100mg
jpg a couple times and record the times. It would then email me the
results...  I think I lost the script though, sadly.  Still wasn't
hard to write once i found the data source.

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BlindTreeFrog · 2019-03-24 00:43

Nevermind, I still do have it.   In case it gives you any ideas (no
promises it was any good...  I just needed to know if my connection
wasn't staying up and for how long it was down so i could yell at my
ISP)

    #!/bin/sh
    # server list from:
https://github.com/Janhouse/tespeed/blob/master/serverlist.txt
    # and http://speedtest.reliableservers.com/
    wget_timed () {
       _file=$1
       /opt/usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null $_file
       #/opt/bin/sh -c '(/opt/bin/sleep 300; /opt/bin/kill $$ >
/dev/null 2>&1) & exec '/opt/usr/bin/wget\ -q\ \-O\ /dev/null\
$_file''
       # /opt/bin/sh -c '(/opt/bin/sleep 300; /opt/bin/kill $$ >
/dev/null 2>&1) & exec 'echo\ "sub\ shell"\ $_file''
       #wait $!
    }

    # Any wget's still running at this point are stalled. give
subsequent ones 5 minutes to complete
    while pkill wget;
    do
       sleep 300;
    done
    sleep 30

    if [ ! -e /tmp/bandwidth.csv ];
        then
           #echo "TimeStamp;File Size;Avg;#1;#2;#3;#4;#5;#6;Notes" >
/tmp/bandwidth.log
           echo -e
"TimeStamp\t;1.89MB;7.54MB;16.99MB;30MB;100MB;100MB;Notes" >
/tmp/bandwidth.csv
    fi

    #echo "Bandwidth @ " $(date +"[%Y.%h.%d] %R %Z") >>
/tmp/bandwidth.log
    echo -n "$(date +"%Y.%h.%d %R %Z");" >> /tmp/bandwidth.csv


    _t0=$(date +"%s")
    wget_timed "http://peacedata.us/speedtest/speedtest/random1000x100
0.jpg?x=$start&y=3"
    wget_timed "http://speedtest.oit.duke.edu/speedtest/random1000x100
0.jpg?x=$start&y=3"
    wget_timed "http://speedtest29.suddenlink.net/speedtest/random1000
x1000.jpg?x=$start&y=3"
    wget_timed "http://glspeedtest.myglnc.com/speedtest/random1000x100
0.jpg?x=$start&y=3"
    wget_timed "http://speedtest.ral.tqhosting.com/speedtest/random400
0x4000.jpg?x=$start&y=3"
    wget_timed "http://speedtest.carolinanet.com/speedtest/random1000x
1000.jpg?x=$start&y=3"
    _t6=$(date +"%s")
    _davg=$(expr "(" $_t6 - $_t0 ")" / 6 )
    echo -n "$_davg;" >> /tmp/bandwidth.csv
    #echo "$(date +"[%Y.%h.%d] %R %Z");1.89MB;" $(expr "(" $stop -
$start ")" / 6)"s" >> /tmp/bandwidth.log


    _t0=$(date +"%s")
    wget_timed "http://speedtest.reliableservers.com/100MBtest.bin"
    _t1=$(date +"%s")
    _davg=$(expr "(" $_t1 - $_t0 ")" )
    echo -n "$_davg;" >> /tmp/bandwidth.csv
    #echo "16.99MB::" $(expr "(" $stop - $start ")" / 6)"s"  >>
/tmp/bandwidth.log
    #echo "100MB::" $(expr $stop - $start)"s" >> /tmp/bandwidth.log



    _t0=$(date +"%s")
    wget_timed "http://speedtest.netcologne.de/test_100mb.bin"
    _t1=$(date +"%s")
    _davg=$(expr "(" $_t1 - $_t0 ")" )
    echo -n "$_davg;" >> /tmp/bandwidth.csv
    #echo "100MB::" $(expr $stop - $start)"s" >> /tmp/bandwidth.log

    echo "300+ likely TIMEOUT" >> /tmp/bandwidth.csv

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abbley · 2019-03-24 04:17

awesome thank you, ill take a look at this :)

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abbley · 2019-03-24 08:58

I ended up using speedtest-cli with another program called speed-
logger. They ended up working perfectly for me. I still need to look
into fping for latency/and jitter but I have the most important part
done! Thank you!