Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

Tim,

Doesn't OpenWRT support iperf3? Why not use that instead of wget?

I think there are a ton of options if I go with an OpenWRT based router.
Still not sure if I want to go through the process of developing out own
consumer grade routers, but still no one beside Mikrotik seems to have
speed test's built into their sub $100 CPEs.


On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:35 AM Tim J <timj () authcom com> wrote:

> On 2019-01-18 10:37, Colton Conor wrote:
> > Aaron,
> >
> > How does the https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login [2]  differ
> > from hosting a speedtest.net [3] server as an ISP, and letting anyone
> > test through it? Seems the speedtest custom is a paid option, but
> > hosting a speedtest.net [3] server is free if you allow it to the
> > public domain. Sure it uses up bandwidth (which I am sure you have a
> > ton of), so I don't see the point of having a custom one?
> Hi Colton,
>
> This may be too light-weight and manual for you, but in the past I've
> supplied a few clients with a decent OpenWrt router. I can then SSH in
> and do a wget to my FTP site. It might not be 100% accurate, but it's
> good low cost option for me, and enough for my purposes. YMMV.
>
> Tim
>
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:27 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:
> >
> > > https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest [1] - one drawback we’ve
> > > seen is upload test has issues on some iphones (maybe other mobile
> > > devices) in safari, but I think chrome might work, unsure
> > >
> > > https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login [2] - ookla customer
> > > speedtest – we have this running *INTERNALLY* in our network on VM
> > > and also bare-metal, this is where our customers test locally
> > >
> > > Iperf - us engineers used it
> > >
> > > wifiperf – us engineers used it
> > >
> > > -Aaron
> >
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest
> > [2] https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login
> > [3] http://speedtest.net
>
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