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!! ❤️

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (3 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 1 month ago (2 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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.

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