Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

For a similar project run by RIPE check out https://atlas.ripe.net. Atlas is a terrible name because everything seems to be named Atlas nowadays, but it's a fitting name for a cool project.

Re: Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

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Post by throwaway077445 » Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 11:58 AM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #2

Nefarious idea: this is basically a legal botnet, alter the target URLs for the speedtesting for Fun & Profit®.

This looks like a cloud dashboard for https://pypi.org/project/speedtest-cli/ it's far from a legal botnet since it still needs to run on your devices.

Re: Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

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Post by ronaldl93 » Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 12:01 PM UTC

konschubert wrote: post #3

A nice tool, I've been wanting to build smth like this as well. Is it web-based? I am asking because I don't want to create an account just to test it out :P

Hi

So it's basically a small docker container that you install on your computer and it would do a test every hour.

The dashboard is web based so you can check your results from anywhere.

Re: Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

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Post by jayonsoftware » Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 12:17 PM UTC

Get https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli , run it on a cron job, out put can be json or csv . What I like on this is i can set different servers. - Jay

Re: Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

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Post by willyyr » Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 12:34 PM UTC

Cool project. Looks a little bit like the one i've been using as a basis: https://github.com/brennentsmith/internet-speed-logger I just combined it with a CosmosDB and put the dashboard online with the actual tester running locally of course.

Re: Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

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Post by jonathantf2 » Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 12:37 PM UTC

Setup seemed easy enough, but the speed results just don't seem accurate. I can saturate my full pipe using the official Ookla CLI tool but the speedtest-cli python package only sees about 250mbps of the 1Gbps I'm getting.

Re: Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

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Post by Havoc » Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 12:45 PM UTC

jonathantf2 wrote: post #9

Setup seemed easy enough, but the speed results just don't seem accurate. I can saturate my full pipe using the official Ookla CLI tool but the speedtest-cli python package only sees about 250mbps of the 1Gbps I'm getting.

Some of the Speedtest package are buggy. Ubuntu one was for a while.

Got much higher score when I pulled the GitHub version