Speedtest Script

[HostUS-Alexander]

Hey

Currently this is what i do for speed test's: Basicaly speedtest files and speedtest.net mini. 

Some providers have really nice fancy scripts, what scripts are these? What do you use?

Cheers

 

[TruvisT]

cURL or wget files from major data centers with a custom script and then print out the speed times. I'm not really a fan of speedtest.

 

[Asama]

Testfile script generator for speedtest.net files: http://testfiles.pw

 

[Afterburst-Charlie]

Testfile script generator for speedtest.net files: http://testfiles.pw

That is just nuts, crazy amount of test-locations.

 

[Eased]

Wow nice find, bookmarked!

 

[Lee]

Wow nice find, bookmarked

 

Agreed, I am tempted to check every box and... Maybe not

 

[BlackoutIsHere]

I perfer wgeting my test files from CDNs

 

[Zach]

Here's what we're seeing with that one speedtest.net CLI script - http://www.speedtest.net/result/2710617415.png

 

[udk]

testfiles.pw just uses all the speedtest.net locations. have a look at the script it generates and you'll see it just downloads a ~30MB image from each location you pick. example: wget http://speedtest.vodafone.co.uk/speedtest/random4000x4000.jpg -O /dev/null

You should also keep in mind that as the size is only 30MB you will not get a very accurate reading for fast connections.

Much easier/better (imo) to use https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli

 

[drmike]

testfiles.pw is interesting.  Good find.   Bigger files would be great

 

[SkylarM]

Agreed, I am tempted to check every box and... Maybe not

So... many.... buttons.

Definately bookmarking this though. Great find!

 

[WelltodoInformalCattle]

Someone convince me why I shouldn't run this script on my server.

 

[Asama]

I've used it several times now, no problems and harmless.