fastdotcom works great on its own for me, testing my download speed every 30m. Problem is if I’m playing an online game at the time it runs a test, I will lag for a while until the test is done. I would like to disable the test when gaming.
Since I have a router that gives me real time stats on bandwidth, I tried to setup an automation that would run fastdotcom every 30m with the condition that my current kbyte/sec received is below 100, which if it is over that, it means a device is currently using the network. This works, except it also checks the condition as the automation runs. So I get a little spike in my kbyte/sec recieved every 30m where fastdotcom starts running, but when it hits 100 it stops and I don’t get the test results. For reference, when I run the fastdotcom test and it works, I will see a spike of ~3000 kbyte/sec.
Is there a better way to do this?