If I were going to do this, I’d plug a MikroTik router into my LAN and script it to do periodic bandwidth testing against another MikroTIk router somewhere off in the greater internet.
But short of that, my only suggestion is that there is a non-Flash, non-Java speed tester at http://speedof.me that you may be able to script to do something if you are clever with such things. It also keeps a history of your test results, so as long as you can cause it to trigger at whatever period you choose, you can come back at any future time and see past results without having to save your own. On May 15, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com> wrote: > 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 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 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 > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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