Internet Speed logger

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Malcolmt

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Folks,
Can anyone point me to an internet speed logger app for windows ?
I can leave it running to collect data into a CSV file.
I found one called Speed Test Logger, it looks nice and simple but doesn't see my connection.
And another called StarTrinity which works but the CSV file is very messy to import into Excel.

I use Rain internet, the speed is pathetic, I want to continually show Rain what a shite product they are
delivering in Parys.

10am today
Ping: 254ms
Download: 0.01Mbps
Upload: 0.02Mbps

Cheers
Malcolm T
 
They already know everything. Send a PM to the Rain rep here to prioritise your connection. Nothing much to do unfortunately - they most likely have congested towers and not enough bandwidth.
 
github.com

GitHub - ericmann/speed-logger: Log network speed to a CSV routinely.

Log network speed to a CSV routinely. Contribute to ericmann/speed-logger development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
This works quite well if you have some basic knowledge with VMs and just follow the instructions on the page. It isn't too challenging to get working. It runs the Ookla Speedtest-cli. I have messed around with the StarTrinity test but I couldn't get it to work reliably - it just wouldn't go above 60mbps of throughput.
 
Flywheel said:
They already know everything. Send a PM to the Rain rep here to priorities your connection. Nothing much to do unfortunately - they most likely have congested towers and not enough bandwidth.
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I've already been in touch with the rep.
I want to post a a daily trend to show the state of their network in Parys.
And maybe it will filter up the ladder to someone who cares
 
Malcolmt said:
I've already been in touch with the rep.
I want to post a a daily trend to show the state of their network in Parys.
And maybe it will filter up the ladder to someone who cares
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A better visual and acceptable solution would be for you to do a speed test and use screen recording software.

Upload to YouTube and send the droplets a link to the video.
 
xxxphantomslayerxxx said:
github.com

GitHub - ericmann/speed-logger: Log network speed to a CSV routinely.

Log network speed to a CSV routinely. Contribute to ericmann/speed-logger development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
This works quite well if you have some basic knowledge with VMs and just follow the instructions on the page. It isn't too challenging to get working. It runs the Ookla Speedtest-cli. I have messed around with the StarTrinity test but I couldn't get it to work reliably - it just wouldn't go above 60mbps of throughput.
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I'll take a look at it tomorrow.
I've fiddled a little with a VM and might get lucky

60mbps eish, If i could get to 6mbps i'd be overjoyed.
According to mybroadband's speed test my speed runs around 0.5mbps, often a tenth of that.
 
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|tera| said:
A better visual and acceptable solution would be for you to do a speed test and use screen recording software.

Upload to YouTube and send the droplets a link to the video.
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that's an idea, I like it
I'll see what i can do about it

EDIT : Even watching a 1meg vid clip on watsapp takes minutes to upload.
I often need to disable wifi and download via 3G, its far faster.
 
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Malcolmt said:
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that's an idea, I like it
I'll see what i can do about it

EDIT : Even watching a 1meg vid clip on watsapp takes minutes to upload.
I often need to disable wifi and download via 3G, its far faster.
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Yep. Rain is kak. Nuffsaid there.

For the task at hand though, just make the video. There's many recording software out there.

Even better. Take video with your phone.
Stich your videos together as one video.
Upload the video from a faster connection.
 
Malcolmt said:
Th

that's an idea, I like it
I'll see what i can do about it

EDIT : Even watching a 1meg vid clip on watsapp takes minutes to upload.
I often need to disable wifi and download via 3G, its far faster.
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Screen recording yourself taking multiple speedtests every day for a few days will probably end up being a massive waste of your time (not to mention having to upload and organize them manually). If you have basic PC knowledge - which you do seem to have - you'll easily be able to just follow an online guide to install Ubuntu as a vm through VirtualBox or something like that. From then onwards, the steps for the speed logger are on that github page. You'll just need to install the packages needed to install the ones shown on the github page (a little strange, I know) but Ubuntu should give you an idea of what package dependencies you are missing when you try to run those commands shown on github.
 
xxxphantomslayerxxx said:
Screen recording yourself taking multiple speedtests every day for a few days will probably end up being a massive waste of your time (not to mention having to upload and organize them manually). If you have basic PC knowledge - which you do seem to have - you'll easily be able to just follow an online guide to install Ubuntu as a vm through VirtualBox or something like that. From then onwards, the steps for the speed logger are on that github page. You'll just need to install the packages needed to install the ones shown on the github page (a little strange, I know) but Ubuntu should give you an idea of what package dependencies you are missing when you try to run those commands shown on github.
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My issue isn't what's best in my responses. My advice is that Rain would never look at your or anybody else's spreadsheets.

Have you actually seen their customer support? Have you experienced how inept they are?

A VM would work, no doubt.

You'd be wasting time making a spreadsheet for shts and giggles though.
 
I got the people I'm in contact with to look at the info I've gathered, granted it's at an advanced stage and I'm in contact with actual networking people. I'd have to agree that next to nobody in their base level support system (normal support reps) would have a look at them, nevermind be able to interpret them
 
Folks, thanks for the input.
I'm retired and have some free time .
And whilst not computer illiterate, I'm OK in my field, was an automation engineer working with PLCs, SCADA, and production reports. These days I'm busy with some microcontroller projects.

The spreadsheet would be used to produce a daily trend, a picture. SAVES a thousand words.

The YouTube posting is an idea but would show only a snapshot of the day.
 
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