# Network binding - speedtest

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/network-binding-speedtest/85456>\
**Category:** Bindings\
**Created:** [November 14, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/network-binding-speedtest/85456 "2019-11-14T08:20:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/network-binding-speedtest/85456/13 "2020-04-15T21:34:45Z")

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Hej @Dave_Baldwin - I ended up with the same question, when I shifted from speedtest-cli to the binding based network speedtest. The latter shows lower up/download capacity, than speedtest, which seems to automatically choose the closest server (in my case Stockholm)  
Could you solve your problem and would you share your solution here?

**SOLVED** - for any, who runs into this issue

I had succes in using the [speedtest.net](http://speedtest.net) servers - an overview of servers is on a [github here](https://gist.github.com/gxgani/11401911) .

My entry to this was though the webpage of an internet provider [http://speedtest4.tele2.net/](http://speedtest4.tele2.net/) , which expolians nicely the underlying concept of the speedtest servers.  
The _network.things_ file has to point at an anycast server address, which automatically connects to the closest servers, and one can choose from a range of files in different sizes in order to test the connection.  
This is my working definition:

```auto
Thing network:speedtest:local "SpeedTest 100Mb" [refreshInterval=180, initialDelay=5, url="http://speedtest.tele2.net", fileName="100MB.zip"]

```

I benchmarked the quite simple solution here against the ookla speedtest webpage ([speedtest.net](http://speedtest.net)) and the results are the same. There might be caveats with this simple approach, but one avoids extra rules and binding definitions, which a solution with speedtest-cli requires [Openhab: speedtest-cli-by-ookla-internet-up-downlink-measurement-integration](https://community.openhab.org/t/speedtest-cli-by-ookla-internet-up-downlink-measurement-integration/94447)

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