I'll need to take a look at speedof.me, but in the past I've picked a file from http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html and used wget / curl.
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > <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 > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448
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