Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

This is built on top of a tool that is highly unreliable at speeds over ~100Mbps. Data: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20201014061733&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sivel&#x2F;speedtest-cli&#x2F;issues&#x2F;226" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20201014061733&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.co...</a><p>I would <i>highly</i> advise using the official speedtest.net CLI.<p>The dev of speedtest-cli nuked the issues page of his repo due to complaints about this, and refuses to acknowledge it, leading to people using this tool without understanding its limitations.

Awesome product-- by the looks of it.<p>I haven&#x27;t tried it or even created an account, because &quot;get started for free&quot; scares me off. Here&#x27;s why:<p>As a consumer, to be honest-- I really don&#x27;t like these offers: &quot;Get started for free&quot;, because they often imply &quot;Create an account for free&quot; rather than &quot;Use the product for free&quot;. I&#x27;d prefer it say &quot;Try the free trial!&quot;<p>For example, I wonder:<p>Does &quot;get started for free&quot; mean one of these?<p>- Create an account for free, but anything after that involves payment. I&#x27;ve encountered many such situations where creating an account is free, but after creating an account you can&#x27;t even try the product without paying. It feels very &quot;bait and switch&quot;.<p>- Add your billing info to try the free product<p>- Make a payment to actually try the product<p>- Or is there actually a useable free tier account?<p>I&#x27;m not even going to create an account on the basis of &quot;get started for free&quot; because it&#x27;s very vague what &quot;getting started for free&quot; means.

I love seeing all these approaches to the same basic problem. Catching your ISP in the act of providing poor service.<p>Here&#x27;s mine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zaphar&#x2F;durnitisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zaphar&#x2F;durnitisp</a> No readme sorry. It uses UDP packets to various different stun servers to export network statistics to prometheus. Then I just use grafana to review the results.

Cool project. Looks a little bit like the one i&#x27;ve been using as a basis: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brennentsmith&#x2F;internet-speed-logger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brennentsmith&#x2F;internet-speed-logger</a> I just combined it with a CosmosDB and put the dashboard online with the actual tester running locally of course.

For a similar project run by RIPE check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.ripe.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.ripe.net</a>. Atlas is a terrible name because everything seems to be named Atlas nowadays, but it&#x27;s a fitting name for a cool project.

I use this docker container `roest&#x2F;docker-speedtest-analyser` [0] to auto-run a speedtest every hour. I am running Unraid on my home servers and also like the Speedtest plugin [1]. Lastly I use a docker container `adolfintel&#x2F;speedtest` [2] so that I can test the speed to&#x2F;from my house from outside the house (or on cellular). This is a pretty cool idea but if you are already comfortable running docker containers locally I encourage you to take a look at the first container I linked so you can keep all the data local.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;roest&#x2F;docker-speedtest-analyser&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;roest&#x2F;docker-speedtest-analyser&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.unraid.net&#x2F;topic&#x2F;41810-speedtestnet-for-unraid-61&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.unraid.net&#x2F;topic&#x2F;41810-speedtestnet-for-unrai...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;adolfintel&#x2F;speedtest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;adolfintel&#x2F;speedtest</a>

Get <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.speedtest.net&#x2F;apps&#x2F;cli" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.speedtest.net&#x2F;apps&#x2F;cli</a> , run it on a cron job, out put can be json or csv . What I like on this is i can set different servers. - Jay

This makes me wonder if there could be a version of this that attempts to extrapolate the ISP network topology, at least to the node level, and to arm users with information at the level of ‘your issue is shared with at least 5 others in your area’.

Nefarious idea: this is basically a legal botnet, alter the target URLs for the speedtesting for Fun &amp; Profit®.

Setup seemed easy enough, but the speed results just don&#x27;t seem accurate. I can saturate my full pipe using the official Ookla CLI tool but the speedtest-cli python package only sees about 250mbps of the 1Gbps I&#x27;m getting.

A nice tool, I&#x27;ve been wanting to build smth like this as well.<p>Is it web-based?<p>I am asking because I don&#x27;t want to create an account just to test it out :P

Usually I&#x27;m adding linuxserver&#x2F;smokeping docker container to boxes I want to check internet speed history.

I don&#x27;t my ISP would care if I show them a graph that my service is bad.

Anyone know of something like this that runs on openwrt?

Can I suggest not requiring both an email address and a username? Email is already unique.<p>Also consider scrapping the password confirmation field.<p>These will reduce signup friction.