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Show HN: Speedtest command line

by cliffwarden on 6/5/15, 8:07 PM with 9 comments

• by cliffwarden on 6/5/15, 8:11 PM

  I got frustrated wanting to check "internet speed" on various servers so I made a command line client for speedtest.net. If I've learned one thing from this project it's that a "quick hack" can snowball so put more thought into the design upfront than seems necessary at the time.

  In particular I think I struggle with the "go way" so any suggestions with creating more idiomatic code would be awesome.

  Thank you!

• by aroch on 6/7/15, 12:07 AM

  Sever network speedtest against speedtest.net are, mostly and unfortunately, useless for anything connected at >1Gbps. Here are 5 tests run against (presumably) the same test server from a server connected at 10Gbps writing to an SSD

  >Ping (Lowest): 7.41 ms | Download (Max): 269.98 Mbps | Upload (Max): 1260.40 Mbps

  >Ping (Lowest): 7.31 ms | Download (Max): 165.27 Mbps | Upload (Max): 183.88 Mbps

  >Ping (Lowest): 7.73 ms | Download (Max): 337.67 Mbps | Upload (Max): 222.73 Mbps

  >Ping (Lowest): 7.79 ms | Download (Max): 614.26 Mbps | Upload (Max): 594.96 Mbps

  >Ping (Lowest): 7.33 ms | Download (Max): 1468.05 Mbps | Upload (Max): 97.49 Mbps

• by Ameo on 6/6/15, 9:21 PM

  I've used one called speedtest-cli on my Digital Ocean Linux boxes - worked very well. Only thing I'm uncertain about is if the server hosting the speed test is on the same network or not...

• by quantisan on 6/6/15, 3:41 PM

  I like seeing more CLI tools in Go.

  What's the difference between yours and sivel's? (in addition to Python vs Go)