Speedtest issus, just me?

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Since yesterday my SpeedTest component has been throwing errors and returning really low results when running.

I usually get ~90mbit and a sub 10ms ping, now I’m seeing ~3mbit and > 2500ms ping times.

I have run the commands manually and received the same weird results and errors…

pi@hass:~ $ /srv/hass/hass_venv/bin/python3 /home/hass/.homeassistant/deps/speedtest.py --simple --server 8424
Cannot retrieve speedtest configuration
ERROR: 1

Then sometimes is works…

pi@hass:~ $ /srv/hass/hass_venv/bin/python3 /home/hass/.homeassistant/deps/speedtest.py --server 8424
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Telia Company (78.70.240.93)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Datacom (Stockholm) [9.54 km]: 2515.206 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 3.88 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 3.98 Mbit/s

This is the result I get on my laptop, which is on my Wifi, the RPi is on the lan.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/5942078027.png

Has anyone any clue what might be going on?

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Not just you - I’m seeing similar results which I can’t explain.

The download speed measured on the RasPi running Hass is about half the speed I measure on the firewall/gateway host (both tested using speedtest-cli in a shell). I’ve moved the Hass box closer in physical network terms to the gateway, and made sure that QOS is disabled.

I was wondering if the network components on the RasPi were just not up to the job, although I’m sure a few months ago I wasn’t seeing this sort of behavior.

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On the other hand mine’s running absolutely fine…

I’ve not had any apparent slow-downs at all

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The same is happening here … speedtest runs without errors but display values that are way too low. I can’t tell when it started behaving that way, but there were no issues in the past.
Running
/srv/homeassistant/bin/python3 /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/deps/speedtest.py --simple
returns:
Ping: 25.663 ms
Download: 7.88 Mbit/s
Upload: 8.44 Mbit/s

Download rates are usually 6x higher.
Thoughts?

TIA

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I am not using a Pi and am not having an issue.

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I am having the same problem. Speedtest running ~3Mbps on Pi 3.
No issue with the local test from laptop.

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Anyone ever sort this out? I’m having the same issue for both SpeedTest.net and Fast.com sensors

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Last time I checked, the Rpi3 wasn’t powerful enough to get the right result with speedtest

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Interesting - I’m getting virtually identical results in HA with speedtest on a RPi 3B as I do on my desktop. The Pi is connected via ethernet. It’s within 1Mb/s of my desktop.

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Note that there is a limit to how fast a Pi can go. I think my Pi3 and earlier maxed at about 60 mbps.

There is a known issue with the Pi3b+ that causes issues with speed tests and large file transfers. When it works correctly though my + will max out my 100 mbps connection.

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my mistake. I connected the ethernet port yesterday and it works fine. However, it’s the Wifi that has speed issues