Hey all. Been coding most of the weekend and have lost my internet. So decided to log into an google sheet speed etc. Decided to use node-red-contrib-speedtest-updated (node) - Node-RED as the speed test but maybe its just me the speed doesnt seem correct? Has anyone else used this node?
I use Node-Red for all my automations but I use the //Speedtest.net integration.
I’m curious why you are using this node and what you are trying to achieve. It looks very interesting and I may give it a try.
Hey Mark.
Well here in Oz and especialy out of the main cities we dont get a great speed in regards to the internet. So when mine started playing up on Saturday I tinkered around till yesterday arvo then rang the provider reluctantly to notify them of a fault. In doing so you get the lets fix it now. Turn off the modem and on again etc. My modem has a 4g backup. My issue is the wan/dsl line keeps disconnecting and after 30 seconds it switches to the 4 g backup. It assumes a new IP address and you can see by the IP which service its on. So I wanted to log it every 10 minutes so I have a record when they say its working correctly.
So I grabbed that node. But when I was reading the speeds it was saying .2, .3 etc . If that’s the speed then we have major issues. It also gives you the original download and upload. So I am not sure if that’s the size of the download and the speed is how long it took or what the figures mean. I haven’t as yet looked at the result this morning so will have a better idea. But I had been coding all weekend when I got to that stage and brain was a bit foggy. So still working out what the figures mean but it does at least give me a graph
Well, I gave it a try and my results from the speedtest node-red node did not match what Speedtest.net website showed. I have a solid connection and I performed the test several times. I monitored the throughput of each test on my router and it confirmed that the node-red test was slower than the website test
First part of graph is from speedtest.net, second is from node-red speedtest.
Here is the graph from the speedtest HA integration (poll interval is once per hour):
I did notice that the web speedtest.net always picks a server that is relatively close to me (~20 miles or less) but the node-red speedtest picks servers that are >70 miles from me. I’m assuming that the HA Integration speedtest is picking the same servers as the web based one (the results are almost identical).
So, I have no good explanation for why the node-red speedtest is slower than the others except for its choice of servers.
The HA Speedtest integration has a configurable poll interval and three entities (ping, upload, download) that are already logged and can also be used in node-red. Might be a better option?
Thanks for that Mark. Glad to see it wasnt me just scratching around and not really seeing what I expected