auto-speedtest

My ISP has a FTTH network with coaxial cable running into appartments. In the middle of the day the download speed is so slow that I usually have about only 1% of the bandwith advertised in my agreement. I think they are stingy with adding more peering points... So I have decided to make speed tests every 5 minutes and log the results to have an overview (and make a lots of traffic 😈).

The Results you can see here

I hope you find it useful, too. Please copy, share, fix and send me feedback (I'm really bad at coding).

How to use

1. First download Python and speedtest-cli (You can run "chmod +x installAuto-Speedtest.sh && ./installAuto-Speedtest.sh")
2. Run speedtest.sh
3. Make a crontab entry with your desired time interval (for slower connections use greater time intervals)
4. Write a frontend website with graphs and statistics and send me your source code ;-)

Crontab

1. Edit your contab with: crontab -e
2. Insert a new line line like */5 * * * * /home/username/speedtest.sh > /dev/null to run every 5 minutes

Log-Syntax

The generated log file contains a new line for each measurement in the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY;HOUR:MINUTE:SECOND;PING;DOWNLOAD;UPLOAD

The values for PING, DOWNLOAD and UPLOAD are all floating point numbers.

Speedtest-CLI

speedtest-cli is a:

Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

1. Download speedtest-cli in the same directory as speedtest.sh: wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py
2. Make it executable: chmod +x speedtest-cli

Display

See this Links https://codingworld.io/project/das-20-x-4-zeichen-mit-dem-raspberry-pi

Install the Framework for the Display on a Raspberry Pi via:

sudo pip-3.2 install RPLCD

add the display.py to your Directory and activate the Commented Line in the speedtest.sh to start the Script.

Preview

Graph-Builder

This module is experimental. It generates graphs from the log file which can be used on websites etc.

1. Install dependencies (Ubuntu): sudo apt-get install python3 python3-matplotlib
2. Run it: python3 graph-builder.py

This reads from test.csv and exports three images called download.png, upload.png and ping.png into the current directory.

Ideas for the Future

• Export/Backup the data
• Export the graph images for specific date ranges (day, month, year, custom range)
• Write HTML code to show the graphs with selection of day, month, year etc. Alpha in index.html + generator.sh
• Traffic extension which calculates the traffic passed through the router and the part of the speed test traffic for a better overview
• Add Automatically Upload to a Website
• Add Capacity, problems with a AVM FritzBox in Internal LAN

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