Speedtest Pc
Lorita Swartzwelder
What is FAST.com measuring? FAST.com speed test gives you an estimate of your current Internet speed. You will generally be able to get this speed from leading Internet services, which use globally distributed servers.
Why does FAST.com focus primarily on download speed? Download speed is most relevant for people who are consuming content on the Internet, and we want FAST.com to be a very simple and fast speed test.
How are the results calculated? To calculate your Internet speed, FAST.com performs a series of downloads from and uploads to Netflix servers and calculates the maximum speed your Internet connection can provide. More details are in our blog post.
What can I do if I'm not getting the speed I pay for? If results from FAST.com and other internet speed tests (like dslreports.com or speedtest.net) often show less speed than you have paid for, you can ask your ISP about the results.
Hey there, do you see any problems when you run speedtest manually from the command line as the netdata user? (This needs to be done once manually to accept the license agreements. You probably know this from the blog already.)
The idea being that this would be fine to run every 30 mins and then over a few days and weeks be useful for monitoring isp speed etc while not actually eating into your bandwidth. Typically it would not really make sense to run it at much more frequent intervals below maybe 10 or 15 minutes.
So if you are on an unlimited connection on a raspberry pi and are OK to have speedtest download and upload a bunch of data then setting the speedtest_update_every variable in the speedtest.conf file to a smaller value should do the trick.
Might I suggest that a compromise might be an RFC to enable displaying of time-series data with custom sampling intervals via the custom dashboards feature? That way no major changes would probably have to be made to the code for the main overview and node views but would allow people to build out and display their data.
If you have done both of the above, then I think the problem is due to the path that this script community/install-collector.sh at main netdata/community GitHub is using while copying the collector code. Please verify if the path used is different from the Netdata path on your system, if yes then you can either update the script or do the steps manually.
I have also followed the steps in How to monitor Internet quality and ISP performance with Netdata Netdata Blog, but it does not seem to work. Looking at my network load in Task Manager, I can see no load great enough to be a speed test when Netdata is running.
I have a MX84 which we have just had our leased line upgraded to symmetrical 500MB, speedtest we're getting 250MB, so i got the ISP to come on site to run tests, connecting his laptop direct into the circuit. After a while they removed restrictions and had to boost the line to get the 500MB speed. We then reconnected the MX and did a speed test which still is 250MB speed.
but later on I have enabled ssl decryption for testing purposes, hoping that the app will be correctly identified byt the firewall, however it did not work, palo alto still sees speedtest .net as pure ssl traffic
1) Plugged in ethernet cable coming out of Orbi Router to my computer an ran SpeedTest.NET and I get a speed of about 500 MBPS. I get similar speed when I run speedtest on my mobile phone hooked to the Orbi Wireless.
There is zero possibility that the computer will record a Speedtest higher than 1GHz, because that is as fast as the ethernet interface will run. Even if the computer is connected directly to the ISP device, Speedtest will record less than 1G.
The smartphone will be limited to the maximum speed of the WiFi connection. The Orbi maximum "link rate" on the user side is 833Mbs for 5G WiFi (1,200Bps on WiFi6), but devices cannot achieve that speed due to losses inherent in WiFi and conflict with other devices. This article seems to lead to the conclusion that an actual speedtest of 500Mbs is "very good".
I do not know what the effect of "Link Aggregation" is on Speedtest. It would be very interesting to see what the computer records when connected directly to the ISP device. Could you try that and report?
The test is to connect the computer to that ISP cable box and do a speed test. I am not aware of many PC's that can aggregate two gigabit connections as the Orbi does, so the resulting speed cannot possibly be more than 1Gbps.
The issue (as I see it) is that the modem is set up to split that 1.2Gbps feed into two parts to send down two gigabit ethernet cables to the Orbi (one to the WAN port and one to to LAN port 1). The Orbi router is clearly able to combine those two internet feeds into a single 1.2Gbps total. When a computer is attached to a LAN port, I honestly have no idea what happens. Does the Orbi serve up a maximum of 1Gbps to the computer LAN port, or does it somehow connect one of those ISP ports to the computer LAN port, which would result in a little over 500Mbps - which is what the computer is reporting.
People who participate in the community forum for the AX product line may have investigated this situation. Perhaps if the question is posted in that forum, someone will have personal experience to relate:
Hi, since a couple of days my speedtest thing based on the network binding addon keeps being offline. It worked very well in the last 2 months. I was wondering if this has to do with the address i am using. If i download the speedtest file from the browser, this still works.
you can check the available serverlist via speedtest-cli command
speedtest-cli --list displays a list of speedtest.net servers sorted by distance
and / or of course:
speedtest-cli --list grep -i germany the currently accessible german servers
Hi Richard,
Refer to 1.png and 2.png, you may press on that little bell icon and you will see the release note.
Currently, only Venus IC2 is running v2.11.0. Earth IC2 and Mars IC2 are still on v2.10.0.
For the speedtest feature you mentioned, it needs the combination of IC2 v2.11.0 and Balance firmware v8.3.0. As of now, firmware v8.3.0 is still under development. Thanks.
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Hello Peplink Team. A loolonnnggg time coming - THANK YOU!! The new flash indicates it should be there now but I can not find the setting in IC2 nor fw v8.3.0. If you could point us in the right direction, that would be extremely helpful.
And even then, since most people test with speedtest.net on their devices rather than iperf, you also want the speedtest client and tests for latency. And then you want notifications when a device that was speed testing well no longer is.
Thanks Martin and though I retired three years ago I still try to keep my head in the game and keep up on things. It would be nice to see this feature made available for the benefit of other users and check it off.
Here is why I need it. I remotely manage an RV park that is 5 hours away. I have 3 internet connections on a Balance router. I need to be able to test the speed of each internet connection individually. I need it to tell the router what the upload and download bandwidth is so that it will distribute traffic accordingly, and two, to see how much my providers are throttling my connection.
Found -link.com/us/home/forum/topic/153553 in Google, here's a new thread for same topic.
I'm testing on an iPhone 12, in the exact same location on my Deco X60 WiFi. My ISP should be providing 1000/1000 fiber connection.
Testing the speed using the Deco speed test (that is supposedly powered by speedtest.net), I get around 700 download, 900 upload - decent for wireless.
Testing the speed using the speedtest app, I instead get 86 download, 40 upload, which is pretty horrid.
There must be a difference in what each app measures? As far as I can tell, the speedtest app pings a server somewhere in the country, whereas Deco might just be testing the connection speed to the main Deco unit?
Thanks
There are three places in Deco app where one can run speed test. Which one have you used, is it "Test Internet Speed'" under More, in Router Settings screen, or some other?
I was indeed using the test under "More". If it tested the speed form main deco to modem of my ISP, why is it not 1000/1000 when it's connected by a .5 m ethernet cable?
I tried the one under Lab, and it's even worse - 150 ms ping, 25 down, 68 up. This is on a sattelite Deco, a couple of rooms away. If I try on my Macbook here, I get 80/80.
If I try the lab speed test when standing right besides the main deco, I get 10 ms, 33 down and 720 up.
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So outside of backhauling all the sattelites through ethernet, what can I do to improve the performance? I'd expect to have very close to 1000/1000 when standing right next to the main unit which is directly cabled to the ISP router?
No, thank you! :) I love that you can official and detailed support from the manufacturer themselves! ?
Unfortunately, I'm in the process of moving, and do not have a device with an ethernet port handy yet, perhaps sometime later this week.
I have three components in the setup,
1. The ISP box, where the fiber cable is run into
2. The WiFi router provided by the ISP
3. The Deco x60 system
alongside some different switches, the first amongst these (and the only one in use at the moment) being a TP Link TL-SG108.
The current setup that provided the results so far is
ISP box -> WiFi Router -> Deco X60 main unit through ethernet cables (and some results from sattellite units connected wirelessly to main unit, but let's focus on the results from standing besides the main unit for now - my plan is to cable the sattelite units later on anyway)
I'm wondering whether going through the ISP's provided WiFi router is necessary, and maybe part of the problem? I remember trying to put the main Deco directly in front of the ISP box during setup, but it didn't work in the first try, so I set it up with the router in between to get it working quickly. I wrote to my ISP yesterday, though, and asked whether it was required to put their router first in the chain, and got a fairly detailed answer. I'll try to translate it almost directly here for context:
My question: "I bought a WiFi mesh system (Deco X60) to improve the WiFi coverage of my house. Do I need to put your provided router in front of the fiber box to get it to work, or can I run a cable from the box directly to a switch or the main unit in the wifi mesh system?"
The answer:
"If your mesh has a base that it runs from, you should be able to put it directly after the box, but it's not something we can help you with.
If you want to use your own router, there are two methods you can use.
1. Bridge mode. You will put the router from us in bridemode, and then put your own router in one of the LAN ports on our router. This will make your own router the primary router, and ours will just forward all traffic.
2. VLAN-tagging. Alternatively, you can VLAN tag your own router to 101. This will make it possible to connect your own router directly to the media converter. You can VLAN tag a router on it's config page. NB: Only some routers support VLAN tagging."
Based on the answer above, can you perhaps help me with the most optimal setup using the Deco X60's? :) Can the x60 skip their router (function as a "base"), or should I go through their router and set it in bridgemode or use VLAN tagging? If I should go with VLAN tagging, do you have a setup guide I can follow? I'm not too well versed in network tech :)
Thanks again!