blackdotsh/curl-speedtest

A simple speed test script that shows download and upload speed, CPU speed, and I/O write speed.

Hi there 👋 I'm black.sh & I code stuff

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🎓 Graduated with a Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Computer Science

🧠 Knowledgeable in algorithms & back-end systems, but not so good at making things pretty like website design

👨‍💻 Currently working to make the Internet a better place with GetIPIntel.net since 2014

curl-speedtest's Issues

POSIX compatibiltiy

For platforms such as OpenWRT routers that do not have bash by default. This only means removing arrays essentially.

Select site based on ping time

precheck which sites have best ping, and proceed with testing on those

Writing test file to /dev/null, uploading from DD output

Low resource IoT devices don't have the storage to keep a 100mb file. We can write those to /dev/null.

For upload, instead of uploading 100mb from disk, we can launch dd and pipe that output into a FIFO and read from that with curl.

Also, these devices don't do well under frequent writes, the storage is not meant to be constantly rewritten, it has finite life.

Bash vs sh

Is bash necessary, or can we pipe to sh instead?

Don't bother - majority of the test servers are down

The great majority of servers in this script are offline. No suprise as this hasn't been updated in 6 years.

Speedtest server updates

Need updating due to speedtest servers being changed around

Web based speed test

Is it possible to make this web-based search? instead of downloading the file and then testing it?

For example.. opening a website link through the browser and running the speed test.

Flag options

To disable things like disk checks and CPU checks if you don't want those

Great idea..but

I think this is a great idea, but it falls short in my opinon. What would be better if you used some already existing sites like ubuntu's mirror and code for option to speedtest either some 800mb file or some 2gb file, like the .iso for ubuntu.
Letting the user to choose something that fits his/her expected bandwidth a bit more accurate.

And let the script crawl either ALL mirrors, and rank the fastest countries with their speed output, or region wise. Like only Asia, US, Europe and so forth.

Some mirrors gives bad result when others can give good result, despite they are from the same country.

I think it comes to handy to know how good your speed is within your own country and to the rest of the world. How is the peering doing.

Shame i can't code, otherwise this would have been a project i would have done.

Randomize test sites

If the script errs out on a site (like the 3rd one), it will always perform checks on the first couple and never reach the last ones, randomizing the order would help with this.