Re: Broadband speed testing...

[Joseph Heenan <joseph-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil,

On 01/01/2013 14:50, Phil Harris wrote:
> I'm sure that we're all aware of www.speedtest.net as a site that
allows you
> to check your broadband speed but I've been having issues with my VM
> broadband connection for a while now and was wondering if anyone knew
of any
> command line based alternatives to this that would allow me to - say -
do a
> speedtest every so often and log the results (ideally on Windows)?
>
>
>
> Basically my supposedly 60meg down / 6meg up connection seems to be
> typically be 4meg down / 2.8meg up so I'd like to try to keep an eye
on it
> at regular intervals to try to build up a profile of whether it's time
of
> day related (contention) or whether it's some sort of physical
problem. I
> had a service call from Virgin Media yesterday and for a little while
I was
> back up to 51-52meg but now back down to 2-5meg this morning. L
Whilst not exactly what you're looking for, this could be worth trying
if you've not already:

http://www.fruk.net/index.php?fruk=f8lure

(It's very possible that you may be experiencing packet loss or slightly
higher ping times at the time of day the speed is bad, in which case
they'll stick out like a sore thumb on the f8lure graphs.)

Cheers,

Joseph



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