Aaaaand your ISP has already begun forcibly speeding up your service to make it look better in 3… 2… 1…
No doubt the second they figure this out a large amount of the scummy ISPs around the world are gonna start temporary reverse speed throttling when this is used, per usual, to make themselves look better.
I’m slightly disappointed that this isn’t about open source amphetamine.
open source vyvanse for random disconnects
Is there difference to https://openspeedtest.com ?
Can you select your server there? Doesn’t seem like it. Plus this one looks absolutely TINY.
Does anyone know about a speedtest that’s like iperf but multicore and suited for >100GbE? I’ve seen Patrick from STH use something that could do like 400GbE but I haven’t found out what it’s called
317kB. I love tiny apps <3
How is that tiny though?
Considering this is about sending some random data to a server and measuring the speed, that’s quite large. I’ve seen whole computer games that fit in 1/10 of that space.
It could fit in a standard 3.5 inch floppy disk, sure it’s not the smallest, but for a full app written in javascript and not asm it is, in fact, small
No Java?
Did they stutter?
It was just a coffee hiccup.
The jitters.
There were something called “Java applets” on the web before flash. It was real Java, probably a sunset of that. There was an addon just like flash.
I doubt they would care enough for Java applets that died a long time ago to put “No Java” in the description
36% Javascript so this statement feels a little strong
Seen as the readme says this in the very next sentence, and they reference Flash, I think they’re actually talking about the full fat Oracle Java runtime, not just Javascript.
Side note: I found a support page on speedtest.net that still says you need Flash installed, but only Flash, no Java required here: https://sandboxsupport.speedtest.net/hc/en-us/articles/202610754-What-are-the-requirements-to-use-Speedtest-net
JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. They are completely different languages and environments.
I’m aware. That’s why I pointed out, to the person that conflated the two, that they are different.
Cool project! I used OpenSpeedTest last week to test local intranet speeds.
If you already have docker/podman installed, the command below should get you going quickly:
docker run --restart=unless-stopped --name openspeedtest -d -p 3000:3000 -p 3001:3001 openspeedtest/latestI prefer to use the ookla sppedtest CLI version. No bs but also better server coverage
Isn’t it proprietary?
Also the ISP probably knows most of the servers speedtest owns and accelerate speeds for them along with other popular speed test websites, while throttling other regular connections.
wouldn’t this also apply to libre speed test once it gets on their radar?
Didn’t think of that, but that sounds illegal
Only if they get caught. Looking at you VW.
Too bad our supreme court has recently stripped all US agencies of their…agency…
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!! ❤️
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.
It really depends. Once every 1-5 minutes, sure, maybe. Once every 1-5 hours tho? You’re likely fine.
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.
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.
