On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'll need to take a look at speedof.me
> <http://s.bl-1.com/h/o0w4hq5?url=http://speedof.me/>, but in the past
> I've picked a file from http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html
> <http://s.bl-1.com/h/o0w4mD7?url=http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html>
> and used wget / curl.
>
>

Thank you both - these are helpful!

Speedof.me isn't quite what I need, since it requires javascript on the
client and I want to run it in an automated script. The tech support guy
there made some suggestions I have yet to try - I'll let you know if it
works.

thinkbroadband.com
<http://s.bl-1.com/h/o0w4rd9?url=http://thinkbroadband.com/> will likely
work better - I'm guessing you just use wget/curl and take a timestamp
right before and right after then do the speed calculation from that.
That's a pretty simple script.

I'll keep you posted.



> 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/o0w4w1C?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/o0w40QF?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
>> <http://s.bl-1.com/h/o0w45pH?url=http://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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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.
>
>
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