Now to set up a cron job to do it every 15 minutes. Then, to test it out, I ran a speedtest with the -csv argument, appending to that file: speedtest-cli -csv > speedtest-track.csv Thankfully, the CLI has a couple of arguments that will help populate a CSV, and you can use standard shell features to append to a file.įirst, I created a new CSV file with headers using the -csv-header argument and piping to a new file: speedtest-cli -csv-header > speedtest-track.csv but it's not very parsable if you want to keep track over a period of time. Once installed, if you run speedtest from your commandline, you get a nice result. On my Pi running Rasbian, I installed that fairly simply with easy_install: sudo easy_install speedtest-cli I wanted something pretty simple, so I just set up a couple of cron jobs on a Raspberry Pi - using the Ookla Speedtest CLI, and a standard ping.įirst, I needed the Speedtest CLI. Presumably in a couple of days I'll be able to hand the files to so they can hound about mini dropouts.- Damian Brady 🥑 #BLM September 7, 2020 Thanks to and others, I now have a raspberry pi set up to do a speed test every 15min, and a ping every 1min. Instead, I implemented something in the middle - albeit a bit closer to the former. Suggestions ranged from just keeping a ping running on a laptop, to setting up an end-to-end tracing solution using half a dozen Azure resources and client applications. This suggestion was echoed by a number of friends and colleagues. They know NBN won't do anything without proof. They can track outages, but there's only so much they can see from their end. An 'outage' is something longer, and it's really only outages that matter.Īfter a swathe of other troubleshooting attempts, one of the representatives at Aussie Broadband (and I want to be clear - I love Aussie) suggested I keep my own records. The trouble is, I'm told NBN (Australia's National Broadband Network) doesn't see them as serious enough to trigger a response. I think Aussie Broadband (my provider) calls them 'flaps', and according to their app, I've had 150 of them in the last 8 days. Just enough to stop me in my tracks and force me onto a tethered mobile phone connection. Only a handful of times per day, and usually only for a few minutes at a time. In summary, I've been getting really short drop-outs semi-regularly. I need to prove it.- Damian Brady 🥑 #BLM September 3, 2020 but apparently not enough visible ones that will do anything. Time to get out a Raspberry Pi and set up some stuff to continuously test my Internet.īecause I'm getting dropouts. Update: I wrote a little script to do a regular HTTP GET and ran the tests again over a weekend.

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