Use compressed file (Ex .zip) to test download speed

[harryhack]

I know that librespeed use file garbage.php to create file random.dat . This file is used to test download speed. But I need to replace it by compressed file (Ex .zip,..) to do that. Anyone help me please ?

[michaelarnauts]

Why would you need to download a compressed file? It should not matter since it's just for downloading bits to measure the maximum speed. The content doesn't matter.

[adolfintel]

It needs to be incompressible data, you can't just use a file full of zeros

[adolfintel]

I think OP was trying to do a "backend-less" installation, using a large file instead of garbage.php. This is technically supported but not really recommended

[aka-charos]

Just like OP, I am also interested in this. I understand that it makes no sense to use an actual file instead of the garbage.php. However in cases where you want to test the server with a remote mounted file to check how fast it can be served from that server, that would be really useful. In my case I have a gdrive mount in the server, and I am interested how fast can it serve to client side.

[adolfintel]

@aka-charos You can do it, just set url_dl to something other than garbage.php (path relative to speedtest.js). Keep in mind that the file has to be relatively large (hundreds of megabytes) and incompressible.