Speed Test and/or Graph

stephenw10

@jarhead said in Speed Test and/or Graph:

You'll either need to reboot or start the service manually and I forget the command to do that but @stephenw10 knows it.

Run: rehash so the shell knows about the new binary.

It's hard to recommend loading pkgs from external repos when one exists in the default repo though.

Steve

Jarhead

@stephenw10 True, but is that one still maintained? Thought it hasn't been updated in years.
Plus, this one is right from Ookla and made for FreeBSD.

stephenw10

It still works OK as far as I can see. Tests from the firewall itself are always a compromise anyway.

Steve

bearhntr

@stephenw10

Tried it -- I got this:

Do you know of any way to get something on the dashboard for SpeedTest? It would be nice if it was there with a record or history - but something which required a manual update.

I know the ORBI I have has a speed test and there is the ANALITI I have on my phone (which I love).

stephenw10

You have to run that at the CLI not in the gui command prompt:

[2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT][admin@t70.stevew.lan]/root: rehash
[2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT][admin@t70.stevew.lan]/root:

You could code a widget to do it. It would be quite involved since speedtest-cli doesn't exist as a package already. Really though you should test from a client behind the firewall. Testing from the firewall itself often gives a worse result because it uses CPU cycles to run the test and pfSense is optimised as a router and not a TCP endpoint.

Steve

Jarhead

@bearhntr said in Speed Test and/or Graph:

@stephenw10

Tried it -- I got this:

Do you know of any way to get something on the dashboard for SpeedTest? It would be nice if it was there with a record or history - but something which required a manual update.

I know the ORBI I have has a speed test and there is the ANALITI I have on my phone (which I love).

You don't need to run that since speedtest has already worked for you. Guessing you did a reboot after install. It was one or the other, reboot or run rehash.

If you search this forum, there was a widget made for the other speedtest package (speedtest-cli) but it was abandoned long ago and probably won't work but you may be able to update it if you want.

stephenw10

Yup, there are a few user efforts in this thread: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/64735/speedtest-cli-run-speedtest-on-pfsense-box

stephenw10

This works if you just want to be able to run the test from the gui.

Screenshot from 2022-09-15 13-44-13.png

No test logging / history there.

Of course it's 3rd party code so you should read and understand it etc.

provels

Here's a post from the Before Times and what I did.
But this was 5 years ago and it was never a bolt-on.

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/64735/speedtest-cli-run-speedtest-on-pfsense-box/25?_=1663246103246

stephenw10

Yeah, that would be a pretty nice diagnostic tool. With the various caveats discussed in that thread. Tools are only as good as the user!

Steve

bearhntr

@provels

Is this still working for you? Do you have the instructions 'consolidated' some place?

provels

@bearhntr Still works, but I'm afraid you'll need to muddle around like I did. Too much to list and not terribly helpful anyway, more of a "wonder if I can do this" exercise.