Scheduled Speed Tests & Logging

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My speeds this weekend have been a constant 2.5mbps + but I know these will drop again.

What I'd like to do is run a scheduled Speed Test ( preferably to a Speedtest.net server ) once every 30 minutes or hour, have these results saved to a log and put them together is some kind of visual chart.

This will give me a great look at how things fluctuate constantly and also an indication of what the connection is like during the week while I'm office bound.

Does anyone know of an application that could do this ?

Mac, Windows or Linux is good.

 

[Ice2Cool]

I was also looking to do this but couldnt find an app to do it.

 

[newklear]

Down Tester V1.13

I've been using Down Tester from www.nirsoft.net, Not sure if it is exactly what you are looking for, but you can specify which servers to test on and are able to export pretty detailed stats and analysis.

Description
DownTester allows you to easily test your Internet download speed in multiple locations around the world. It automatically test the download speed of the URLs that you choose, one after another. It moves to the next download URL after the specified number of seconds has been elapsed or after it downloads the specified amount of KB - just according to your preferences.
After the download test is finished, you can easily save the result into text/html/xml/csv file, or copy it to the clipboard and paste it into Excel and other applications.

System Requirements
This utility works with Windows 98,Me,2000,XP,2003,2008,Vista, and Windows 7.

 

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Thanks Kasbah. That's close but want something that can run a schedule at certain times.

I think it'd be great for all of us to keep a log of our connections for a month or so.

Would go a long way in showing Neotel a thing or two about our connections.

 

[newklear]

If you are using Firefox only thing I can think of to run the speedtests at certain times is to use
Co-Scripter, which can automate the speed tests to be done whenever you want, but does not help at all with logging and charts.. will keep a look out for something better to use.

I have been keeping track of all my disconnections using mIRC (logs exact date/time/second of d/c and re-connection) and tracking my data usage with Bandwidth Monitor Pro (Haven't been able to utilise than 100mB/day for just over 3 months, current max download 5 kB)

Haven't been able to use www.speedtest.net either (hangs when I select server) but have kept a manual record of http://speedtest.neotel.co.za/ tests

Agreed, let everyone keep track of their speed test results, I have quiet a few speed test results saved in an excel speadsheet to give my mean averages etc over a period of a month and a bit and will keep doing so.

On another note RSSI is now 92 as opposed to 91 today, Every day little by little my performance is dropping, still waiting to see an improvement.

 

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I gave that a shot thanks! It doesn't seem to be able to record clicks within a Flash movie though, which is what all the speed tests use.

I'm amazed that there aren't 50 million pieces of software that allow scheduled tests and logging!