This is really bad, I hoped this is a more reliable service…
It is a problem because right now, I use speedtest to check for internet connection (which basically works really great and I have not seen a similar method for this here, so if anyone interested I can share it - basically it reports immediate internet outage and not just polls speedtest) and if it can’t execute the speedtest, it will report it as an internet outage.
Anyway someone know similar service which can operate from command line and can test connectivity/speed?
following chart all break point are break point due to Speed test failure in last 7 days(except the big one) . Big one is due to recharge for services pending from my side .
1st chart is for speed test and 2nd one is Pi hole
I know now if it was really an outage, you can usually see a really big increase on the Pi-hole graph as all devices retries to connect to its web services
Anyway I’m happy with this right now, it can detect internet outage 95% correctly…
I have not experienced any of these issue and I have mine running every 10 minutes. Maybe it’s the Linux implementation, I’m running windows and have been very happy.
I think this is also based on where you live.
For me it only happened once for a few hours, others report this more frequently… It does not look like a client side error, but clearly something goes wrong on speedtest side. When I had this outage I tried to execute it manually, from other device, everywhere I received some error. Only web client worked (but that one worked on devices where the cli don’t).
The main disadvantage of this pushed commercial Speedtest CLI instead of open source Python based tool is the fact, that I cannot choose far server, for example if I want to check my connection from my city to Australia, I cannot do it. Only on the main page I can search for a server, and it does not provide me with it’s ID. Old speedtest-cli had a big list of all servers, but nowadays for some reason, all continents were removed and it is impossible to test Africa/Australia and so on… Why is that? No idea. Looks like Ookla wanted to kill the open source good tool.
Thank you. In the first list you have provided, there is no Australia/Africa or for example New Zealand. This is the problem. For some reason, someone has removed very far continent servers. But on the other list, all servers are back. Then I can look for Tanzania, Australia, Sydney, Christchurch and so on…
From the first list, old speedtest-cli is choosing, that’s why I was them missing since few weeks, wondering why. And the second list the new tool is choosing from.
Anyway, thanks. Maybe in future versions, also official speedtest CLI will gain an option to list ALL servers, and not only nearest.
