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I know this response all to well - I have had similar from NBN Co and TPG.  The reason they only take speedtest.net net is they prioritise the traffic to them to inflate the numbers and make NBN and the RSP look better... I call it Fraud!  They should accept test results from any valid test provider.

Perth, Western Australia here. G'day All

25 minutes ago, CA3LE said:

 

Not at all.  In case you didn't know yet, TestMy.net has an auto test built in.  Members can test up to every 5 minutes automatically.  It's only when people make their own scripts to run the test more often that it will trigger intervention.  Like if you made a program that ran the test every 5 seconds, indefinitely... you're going to get banned because it violates TMN terms of use.  Keep in mind, you're degrading your connection while the test is running... it's literally designed to suck up your bandwidth.  So, personally I wouldn't want to run it too often... it defeats the purpose if it's run too often.  Once every 5 minutes for example should only be used for short periods to aid in troubleshooting.  You wouldn't want to run that test constantly.  There are other tools better suited for consistent monitoring... TestMy.net has a few in development right now that will monitor your connection health while only using bytes of data.  Keep visiting.

 

Don't worry about getting banned if you're using TMN normally in your browser as it's designed.  

Hi Ca3le,

I am aware of your automated tool and have been using it.  I would like to run the tests and capture the results to CSV locally (programmatically) for collating reports that use with the ISP's here in Australia.  previously I had been using speedtest-cli to do these tests.  Due to my own ignorance, I didn't know about the differences in the tests - now with the new knowledge, I would like to use testmy.net to gather the results, hence the reason for my keen interest in the tool that Paga is talking about developing.  This is the type of reports I have been collating previously with the speedtest-cli tool. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KKrkZUjA7Q1QL-HoFprcaOSNptyj4RNV-WbGI_plw-Q/edit?usp=sharing 

I generate these reports for myself, family and friends and also for clients as ISP's in Australia (particularly with new NBN installations) like to play the blame game and these reports are extremely important to hold the ISP's accountable.

Cheers,

Darren

1 minute ago, CA3LE said:

Sorry I'm seeing this way after it was posted.

 

 

You can do that but be careful that you aren't repeatedly hitting it... testing only seconds apart, over and over for instance is sure to trigger a blacklist.  But if you're testing using normal intervals you're fine.  

Hi Ca3le,

I was looking at running the test every 15 minutes - is that going to trigger a blacklist?

On 11/10/2016 at 6:19 AM, Paga said:

Hello there,

 

Given a recent networking problem on my networking setup, I've decided to write a simple CLI client for testmynet. I know, we can test download speeds using wget, but a proper client good have some nice goodies such as:

- Keeping the internal list of servers.

- Choosing the closest server by latency.

- Choosing a random server.

- Being a collectd plugin (my main motivation).

 

Before I embark on this (admittedly short) journey, I have a few basic questions:

- Is there anything similar out there? I couldn't find it.

- Anyone would be interested in such a tool? I find the collectd integration super useful.

- Is there any limit on how many times I can query a server before being blacklisted? I do not want to cause problems for TMN. The idea is to use the /dl-XXXXX URL to download a fixed amount of data.

 

Thanks in advance.

I have been looking for such a tool myself as it would be very handy to be able to automate this process as I collate the data and use it with my ISP's here in Australia.  The different technologies used on the Australian NBN deliver different results for the same connection speeds....  I don't trust speedtest.net and the Australian ISP's prioritise traffic to this site - so the results are never going to be correct for all the reasons we know and hate.  Paga, if you are continuing with this project and I VERY interested.

Cheers!