Speed test request / speed test not showing full speed

[yaroz]

Great info here.

Any chance to have a speed test added into the graph as well?

External IP addresses would be nice too, to know if the router failed over for a period of time. Maybe show the current IP, and a link to the history? You can get that from ifconfig.me/ip

[plaintextpackets]

I've thought about this and might add it to a future version. My main concern was if you're running a speedtest on an interval all day every day, it would use a non-trivial amount of bandwidth, so if this is deployed on a metered connection it would take up data. Maybe an optional feature you can turn on

[yaroz]

I agree. I learned that the hard way when I had a pi doing a speedtest every 30 minutes on a metered connection. We were 30GB over.. wasn't fun explaining that to management.

[Kelsch]

I don't know much about grafana or any of the systems that are being used, but what about adding something where you can run a manual speed test or something? Not something that gets run automatically just something that every now and then when you look at the graphs you can click run.

[plaintextpackets]

I'll think about it some more for an upcoming release

Part of the issue as well is establishing a reliable external download source to test, without having to deploy my own speedtest server and pay for it. But I'm sure something can be done using free files available

[ImCodingCat]

I'll think about it some more for an upcoming release

Part of the issue as well is establishing a reliable external download source to test, without having to deploy my own speedtest server and pay for it. But I'm sure something can be done using free files available

Maybe you can look at this? https://github.com/maxandersen/internet-monitoring

[Unclerojelio]

I'll think about it some more for an upcoming release
Part of the issue as well is establishing a reliable external download source to test, without having to deploy my own speedtest server and pay for it. But I'm sure something can be done using free files available

Maybe you can look at this? https://github.com/maxandersen/internet-monitoring

or this: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli

[suzunov]

or maybe this one: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

[secdoc]

I like the idea of having the ability to also get the speedtest data. I think having it as another metric would be of value especially when paying for synchronous connectivity. Another project that I have been using for speedtest data on its own is Speedtest Tracker (https://hub.docker.com/r/henrywhitaker3/speedtest-tracker) and have the test running every 5 minutes...since I do not have a data cap or limit, I am not as concerned with that aspect but want to have consistency in what I am paying for...

I currently have ATT Fiber and it seems like they do fine for a while then something happens and getting the data in a central dashboard would be great to provide to them. This is what I have been able to tack with your tool for the last 24 hours...and truly appreciate the work...very easy to spin up in a Proxmox VM...

[plaintextpackets]

So @philipnordmann is playing with this right now in case anyone wants to test:

https://github.com/philipnordmann/netprobe_lite/tree/speed_test

I need to spend some time this weekend testing before incorporating

[willstocks]

I've been partial to https://speed.cloudflare.com/ as of late and have found reported speeds to be more reliable/closer to the "real feel" of my internet performance at a given point in time... if it's an option that is (I know speedtest is/has been the staple for some time)

[plaintextpackets]

Pulled this in today for testing and some tweaks:

https://github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite/tree/speedtest

Note: the docker image in Dockerhub is not yet updated. If you want to test the speedtest then build the docker image yourself and modify the compose file to point to the image you built

[plaintextpackets]

There's an issue with this approach as if the speedtest runs longer than 30s it will stop all other metric collection for that interval, so you get gaps. Need to asynchronously do speedtests and other probes. Will think on it.

[philipnordmann]

That would for sure work to make the speedtest in the background but if it takes more than 30s then we probably see (as you already said) some spikes in latency, jitter, etc.
Another option from my perspective would be to just send out the "old" values from the other metrics when the speedtest is not finished yet, that won't represent the full picture either but at least the gaps will be gone.

I can have a look the next week to check.
Unfortunately my speedtest never took more then 20s I think so that's why I never noticed, sorry!

I could also have a look into @willstocks suggestion but from what I can see the python library is not really offical and a reverse engineering of couldflares speedtest. But they have the option to define the amount of data that is transfered which might help a bit.