Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?

• speedtest

  125 11,124 7.2 PHP

  Self-hosted Speed Test for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more

  

https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest

For those who need to document lower speeds than SLAs from their ISPs, this will help you check for chicanery, shenanigans, and sneaky QoS. Recommend.

• speedtest

  5 208 0.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued A self-hosted, lightweight HTML5 speed test implemented in JavaScript, based on Web Workers and XMLHttpRequest. (by e7d)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• mtr

  22 2,528 6.3 C

  Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

All providers managing their speedtest servers with QoS. These servers will be handled as a business critical system. All other services are available as they are, if not specified in a contract. So, you might toss your tinfoil hat into trashcan. Yet better you can use mtr (https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/) to just find the real source of the problem.

• boost_bandwidth_via_speedtest

  2 131 0.0 Python

this is true, in my country, it's a well known thing that the internet gets un-throttled when accessing speedtest, and someone ingenious made a script to keep running speedtest-cli in background to keep the internet working at full speed

https://github.com/orz811017/boost_bandwidth_via_speedtest

• chargen2p

  2 3 4.1 Go

  2-Phase Character Generator Protocol

I don't trust speedtests. There are all kinds of wrong incentives, similar to GPU benchmarks. One thing I noticed was that the data speedtest.net sends has really low entropy. It just repeats 10 bytes. If I ran an ISP I would...

So I wrote chargen2p [1] as an extension to the classical chargen protocol.

I use it together with a Prometheus exporter [2] I wrote to periodically check my laptop's connectivity. The actual check runs over Wireguard, since I didn't want to open my chargen2p server to the public. This only checks download speeds, mind you. (The chargen2p library exports upload metrics, but the exporter doesn't use it.)

My graphs tell me the average is ~5 MBps, so 40 Mbps. This is between me (Switzerland) and a Hetzner DC in Germany. speedtest.net just now claimed 160 Mbps.

[1] https://github.com/tommie/chargen2p

[2] https://github.com/tommie/prometheus-connectivity-exporter

• prometheus-connectivity-exporter

  2 1 0.0 Go

  A network connectivity prober for Prometheus.

I don't trust speedtests. There are all kinds of wrong incentives, similar to GPU benchmarks. One thing I noticed was that the data speedtest.net sends has really low entropy. It just repeats 10 bytes. If I ran an ISP I would...

So I wrote chargen2p [1] as an extension to the classical chargen protocol.

I use it together with a Prometheus exporter [2] I wrote to periodically check my laptop's connectivity. The actual check runs over Wireguard, since I didn't want to open my chargen2p server to the public. This only checks download speeds, mind you. (The chargen2p library exports upload metrics, but the exporter doesn't use it.)

My graphs tell me the average is ~5 MBps, so 40 Mbps. This is between me (Switzerland) and a Hetzner DC in Germany. speedtest.net just now claimed 160 Mbps.

[1] https://github.com/tommie/chargen2p

[2] https://github.com/tommie/prometheus-connectivity-exporter

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