However I’ve more or less given up on obtaining that, these days I’m just happy if it’s stable. While this is my average speed, it’s well below what I’m paying for, which is 25 Mbit/s down and 2.5 Mbit/s up. I have an ADSL2+ Annex M connection, unfortunately FTTC hasn’t quite made it to my parts of the world. Testing upload speed.Īlthough I’ve disguised other details, that really is my average reported broadband speed. Hosted by Foo Limited (Metropolis) : 35.27 ms Once installed it’s rather easy to grab measure your broadband speed. This will install pip - a package management system for python - if you don’t already have it installed, and then the speedtest-cli package from the pip repositories. Just open up a terminal window on your Raspberry Pi and type the following at the command line, $ sudo apt-get install python-pip Most recently I’ve switched to using speedtest-cli, a command line interface to the servers written in Python. Over the time I’ve been doing this I’ve used various methods to measure the latency and speed of my broadband connection. Instead my script is a bit more direct, it automatically submits a trouble ticket into their support queue. Well, not the bit where I tweet my broadband provider. This is actually something I’ve been doing myself for a couple of years, also using a Raspberry Pi stuffed in corner of my network closet.
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