Overall this binding works well for me, assuming I stick with the example server and filename given in the binding documentation. BUT, that server’s in France, so not that meaningful for me. I’d like to use a closer server as a better benchmark of my up/down speeds.
… and that gives a “Error status code 404” errors.
I did a brute force search on this directory with DirBuster, and found that this link: https://hou.speedtest.sbcglobal.net:8080/download/download
… successfully begins a download of a 10.0 GB file. Cool, that’s good to know, seems like I am getting somewhere!
But since then I have fiddled around with the Thing definition with various permutations of the url and the fileName parameters, and still not yet managed to make it work. I keep getting 404 errors.
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?
My entry to this was though the webpage of an internet provider 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:
Hi all,
Nice binding, very usefull.
For the speedtest, i try the basic thing and it works, but result is very strange as it says my bandwidth is between 2.3 - 2.4Mbit/s (DL).
Problem is that i have a 1Gbits connexion (tested and effective at 950Mbits).
When i do a WGET on the same file with the server, i have more than 900Mbits for bandwidth.
Any clue why the binding speedtest is so slow ?
Thanks
Thanks for your response.
I monitor the interface all the time, so while the test is performed.
(with iftop for this test)
I really dont understand why network binding/speedtest is so slow …
Hello,
No one else has the same problem ?
Forgot to mention my system : raspberry PI4 (1gb interface) with raspbian.
After a reboot for another reason, my results are now : 40mb/s (DL) 25 mb/s (UL), still far from real bandwidth.
Thank you @mdnx, the suggested server works fine for me and the numbers seem realistic compared to other (web based) speedtests!
However, I got a problem with the returned text from the binding:
2021-02-10 11:14:47.733 [WARN ] [e.internal.SseItemStatesEventBuilder] - Exception while formatting value '91.4568805736 Mbit/s' of item SpeedTest_DownloadRate with format '%d %unit%': d != java.math.BigDecimal
But I don’t really get the problem? The number seems to fit into BigDecimal and there is a space separating it from the unit. What’s failing here?
Where did you do that? I’m trying to avoid file configs with OH3 now. So I checked the possibilities when linking the item and see that “Number:DataTransferRate” is the preset.
Thank you so much, this works perfectly! I feared that it’s wrong in the channel already, because the same format string was displayed for it. But changing the metadata indeed is enough!
Coming back here to ask, whether somebody has a current, working and fast speedtest server to share? The french one from the docu works fine, but the speed is very slow and doesn’t reflect my actual speed. The aforementioned tele2 server was quite good, but it’s been giving back a http 503 for over a week now
I tried this one before, but Upload didn’t seem to work. Just tried it again, now it works, albeit slower than it should be. I’ll keep an eye on it, maybe it was just a glitch. Thanks!
I am having the same experience with the French one and also ovh gives me too low results compared to speedtest and reality. I tried with different files, but with the same result. I am on a SVDSL 185 connection, maybe someone with a different bandwidths is closer to reality with ovh or the french one. ovh is showing just around 125 with me. speedtest net was around 160-170.
The interesting thing is if you copy paste the configuration for http://speedtest.tele2.net/100MB.zip into the browser, it works and the file will download. Maybe a minimal change has happened. Is there someone who could have a look into the binding configuration?
For me is the speedtest.tele2.net Server working but only for download. After the failed upload attempt the thing goes offline.
So i think it is a problem with the upload process.
Yeah, the ovh results vary greatly. My ISP has issues, but not this bad
@dirkdirk is right though, tele2 only fails for the upload. Sadly it seems you can’t disable the Upload part. I tried setting upload size to 0 but, it’s not accepted.