Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net. Speedtest on pypi.org
Questions tagged [speed-test]
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What is a low impact way of checking if the internet is really slow in python?
I have a python script which I run as a background process on my mac every 10 minutes. Basically, it downloads the latest image from a server and depending on my internet speed, it downloads a hi-res (20mb on 5Mb/s connections or better) or low-res…

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How can I download an "unlimited" amount of data for x seconds in PHP/Javascript?
I am attempting to create a speed test server that can be used across a LAN with speeds ranging from 10 Mbps (Wi-Fi) up to 10 Gbps (Servers in our datacenter) and can be accessed from Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.
I'd like to test speed by…

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How to measure wifi LAN speed?
I am trying to open a sender / receiver socket on the same device and send a 64k packet to the router then receive it back. The key is packet should go through router. So I will be able to tell user something about his local wifi speed. Here is what…

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Lua string to number parsing speed optimization
I am trying to make a speedtest using Lua as one of the languages and I just wanted some advice on how I could make my code a bit faster if possible. It is important that I do my own speedtest, since I am looking at very specific parameters.
The…

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Slow upload speeds on Windows 7
I was stumped. At work, my Windows 7 laptop with an Atheros AR8152/8158 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller was clocking download speeds of 10+ Mbps but upload speeds were less than 1 Mbps.
At home on my cable internet, both speeds were 12+ Mbps.
BTW,…

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Speed of printf()
I was having some fun in C language with time.h library, trying to measure the number of clock ticks of some basic functions, just to figure out how fast they actually are.
I used the clock() function.
In this case I was measuring the printf()…

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Internet Speed Test App from AS3
I need to create a internet speed test application in Actionscript 3.0, like
Speed Test
I need to calculate
1. Download speed
2. Upload speed
3. Latency (Round Trip Time)
4. Jitter
5. Packet loss
6. Network availability
From where I should…

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Why is map (slightly) faster then list comprehension in python
I ran into this question about converting ints to floats, and wondered which of the suggested solutions would be faster (and I also was converting to ints, not from them).
The code used was this, in ipython:
In [1]: import numpy as np
In [2]: a1…

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How to create a gauge using Kivy?
I want to make an internet speed test application for Android with Python.
I have done the back-end side but I have a hard time with the front-end.
After research, I decided to use the Kivy framework, however, I need guidance on how to create a…

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Understand ookla speedtest json values
I'm having some difficulties matching the json results with the values shown on the website:
I run the test with speedtest -f json-pretty -u bps
{
"type": "result",
"timestamp": "2022-03-16T01:40:00Z",
"ping": {
"jitter":…

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Slow download speed in Flutter Android
I am making speedtest application with Flutter. I tried dio and http libraries. While I get full speed on iOS, I get at least 35% - 50% lower values on Android. I tried many ways, I read articles for hours, but I couldn't find a solution. I made a…

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Using a fixed server ID with OOkla speedtest-cli
Some time ago, I set up a Linux task to run speedtest-cli every 30 minutes to figure out a network issue. The task used the "--server ID" argument to get the speed to the same server each time. I used it for a while then forgot about it. Today I go…

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Page speed insights is not giving results
I have tested more than 10 shopify stores urls, but for every store I am getting an error.
Lighthouse returned error:
NOT_HTML. The page provided is not HTML (served as MIME type text/plain)
I am not getting speed results.... What is the issue in…

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Using speedtest or speedtest-cli on Pythonista
I am trying to make an iOS shortcut that would notify me of the current internet speed. I thought of using speedtest module on Pythonista 3 by installing it using StaSh.
pip install speedtest
Querying PyPI...
Error: Version not found: speedtest
I…

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AttributeError: module 'speedtest' has no attribute 'Speedtest'
As the title says, I'm getting this error when trying to run this simple Python code:
import speedtest
r = speedtest.Speedtest()
Which results in
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:/Users/XXXX/YYYYYY/VSCode/Poli.py", line 3, in
r…

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