Does anyone know of a speed test where you can set it up to run by itself regularly and push a notification to a channel (like pushbullet or similar) when the speed is below a certain threshold?

Edit: I went with self hosted speedtest-tracker as a docker container and notifications through Discord webhook.

Thanks for all the tips!! ❤️

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If I had this requirement I would just generate a file of specific size, place it on one server and on the other I would have a shell script running via cron and measure the time it took to download the file.

It seems like a relatively simple problem.

BTW are you sure you want to test download speed and not latency? I think some routers might have the later built in.

[–] Emptiness@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Definitely speed. My ISP runs on another service providers hardware and it bugs out from time to time and I get 1/10th of the speeds I usually have. My ISP has no way of knowing this so I have to know when it happens and place a ticket so they can place a ticket on the hardware guys.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fair warning that this would chew through a ton of bandwidth if you run it often, so only do it if you don't have bandwidth caps.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It really depends. Once every 1-5 minutes, sure, maybe. Once every 1-5 hours tho? You're likely fine.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

True, although once per hour would still be a lot of data.

For example me running a fast.com test uses about 1.5GB of data to run a single test, so around 1TB per month if ran hourly.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Once every 6hrs would only be 180GB. A script that does it every six hours, but then increases the frequency if it goes below a certain threshold, could work well. I guess it all depends on how accurate you need the data to be.

[–] chrisbit@leminal.space 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I self host speedtest-tracker for this.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, another thing to install on my Synology NAS! LOL Thanks for sharing that.

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

There is speedtest-cli at least that you can run from a script.

[–] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Maybe try https://myspeed.dev/

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Funnily enough, I had something exactly like this set up with home assistant. You can add Ookla and fast.com speed tests as devices, which will run the tests periodically, and then I had an automation set up to send me a message via telegram whenever speed was less than half of what it was supposed to be

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you’re on MacOS, you can run networkquality via crontab and append the results to a text file. I did this for a few months on a congested network to identify ideal times to try and do schoolwork.

E: A word.

[–] flauschtier 1 points 3 months ago

There is a Speedtest Integration for HomeAssistant and you could automate a notification.