Hi: I know this isn't exactly a Mac question, but I'm hoping you'll forgive me and that someone will have some idea....
I think I am getting highly variable speed from my ISP and rarely getting the speed for which I pay. Using sites like speedtest.net <http://s.bl-1.com/h/oy7pKLo?url=http://speedtest.net/> generally show that I am getting good speed at close to spec (occasionally not), but I can only run that test manually when I remember. What I want is something like a shell or automator script that I can set up to run periodically (every 10 minutes, hour, one minutes, whatever) that will do something like speedtest.net <http://s.bl-1.com/h/oy7pQlq?url=http://speedtest.net/> and then leaves me with some output that I can log/keep to see if my speed issues are actually a connection issue or if there is something else (I know, lots of possibilities, but I've ruled most out). Does anyone know of anything that will do this? Or how to do this? I can do some shell scripting, I can handle automatic scheduling and I have a web hosting provider where I can place some server-side scripts (e.g. PHP. PERL, Python), but not flash (like Ookla/speedtest.net's installable), sadly. Other ways of doing this or determining speed over time would be helpful as well. Any suggestions and help are very much appreciated. Thanks, Jeff
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