Needed App - Daily internet speed test with notification e-mail option?


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So I am looking for an app that will run a internet speed test on a set schedule then e-mail the results. And what would be even nicer is something that has set limits, if the down stream is less then X, send e-mail, otherwise ignore.

You guys know of anything like that floating around?

I would just script that to be honest, download file X from somewhere. You can even put speedtest.net on your own server somewhere to use. http://speedtest.net/mini.php or just use wget or ftp etc.. Throw the results in a file, look in the file for the speed, then email it based upon your criteria.

Your problem being is what if the connection is down - kind of hard to email anything ;) Unless you have more than 1 connection.

For testing if your connection is up - you can use a outside monitoring site. http://www.dslreports.com/schedule There are some free ones, I for example get emails from http://www.siteuptime.com/ when my sites go down on my webhost -- but could be used to check your internet connection as well.

Yeah I use siteuptime also, I have other outside checks for the connection going down...

My issue right now is I am having to reset our modem once every month or so.. and we drop from 50mbit to 25mbit.. which isn't totally noticeable for a few days, so I don't see the issue right away.

looks pretty slick - might to give it a test. Curious how reports when say a major download is happening, say p2p.

So quite often for example my pipe might be fairly full, to some individual client it could look like my bandwidth has been lowered - when in fact this is just another client on my own network using the pipe.

But if you have the ability to not send reports until X number of tests have shown slower speeds you might be ok, otherwise I would think it possible to get some false positives. Especially in a share environment.

But yeah that looks exactly what you were looking for - let us know how it turns out.

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