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    • luckman212L
      luckman212 LAYER 8
      last edited by

      @getrav:

      …I found the speedtest code...

      Wanted to thank you for posting this. Today I used this to do a remote speed test at a site where I did not have physical access to nor any remote access to a machine behind the firewall.  The vendor needed us to confirm that a speed increase had been implemented by the ISP and this was the perfect tool for this. Got the job done and saved us a few hours of travel time for what amounted to a 5 minute test.

      Thank you 8)

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        floz
        last edited by

        Thanks for this, exactly what I was looking for.

        Just my little 2 cents how to get this working on pfSense 2.2 and later.

        
        #/etc/rc.conf_mount_rw
        setenv PKG_TMPDIR /root/
        pkg install python27-2.7.10_1
        ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2 /usr/local/bin/python
        pkg_add -r http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/python26-2.6.6.tbz
        fetch -o /root/speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py
        chmod +x /root/speedtest-cli
        #/etc/rc.conf_mount_ro
        
        
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          doktornotor Banned
          last edited by

          Or just use 2.2.5; python is already there.

          
          $ file /usr/local/bin/python2.7
          /usr/local/bin/python2.7: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1, for FreeBSD 10.1, stripped
          
          
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            ariyako
            last edited by

            curl -Lo speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py
            chmod +x speedtest-cli

            nano speedtest-cli

            change

            #!/usr/bin/env python
            

            to

            #!/usr/local/bin/python2.7
            

            ;)

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              mdmogren
              last edited by

              Just wanted to post this update here for others who use this tool - it is now a package and can be installed using

              
              pkg install py27-speedtest-cli
              
              

              Then just run

              ./usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli
              
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                Smoothrunnings
                last edited by

                Is there no GUI version of this?

                My ubnt USG Pro has a speed tester app on it's firewall GUI. I don't see how it's anymore complicated to get one for Pfsense.

                Thanks,

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  @Smoothrunnings:

                  Is there no GUI version of this?

                  My ubnt USG Pro has a speed tester app on it's firewall GUI. I don't see how it's anymore complicated to get one for Pfsense.

                  Thanks,

                  No, because speed testing from the firewall itself is inaccurate and unreliable. We don't want to encourage people to rely on bad data. See my previous response on this thread.

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                    authenticx
                    last edited by

                    Actually this is a good thing to use if you suspect your switch or cabling may be contributing to a loss of bandwidth.  This would narrow the points of failure to your firewall, the connection between your firewall and gateway and the gateway itself.  If you have a large difference between what this cli test reports and what you see in a speed test from your pc you just gained valuable troubleshooting information.

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                    • luckman212L
                      luckman212 LAYER 8
                      last edited by

                      I agree. It can have the standard YMMV/caveat attached, but I have gotten a ton of useful information from having the speedtest_cli pkg installed on my remote units. In my testing, a C2xxxx CPU is more than capable of pulling 400-500Mbps directly with this tool. Very useful!

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                        icewraithuk
                        last edited by

                        I use this to keep my ISP honest, which is a trick in itself :) For those that are interested here's my hack:

                        Go to www.thingspeak.com and register for a free account, create a channel with three fields (I only care about ping, DL and UL, you may want more), go to the API page and make a note of your write API.

                        Do the stuff to get speedtest on your firewall, run a speedtest and note which server it decides is your local/fastest - I use the one hosted by my ISP, for example. Then run a speedtest –list | grep <your chosen="" server="" name="">to get the ID (eg. speedtest --list | grep Virgin in my case)

                        Run a speedtest --server <the id="" you="" found="">--csv to test

                        Edit the speedtest.py file and add these bits - note, this isn't clean or clever, I've gone with functional!

                        • Under the other import lines at the top:
                        import urllib2
                        
                        myAPI="<your api="" key="" goes="" here,="" in="" the="" quotes="">"
                        baseURL = 'https://api.thingspeak.com/update?api_key=%s' % myAPI
                        print baseURL</your>
                        

                        Then go down to around line 700 and look for the CSV output section, add the lines with -> below

                        def csv(self, delimiter=','):
                                """Return data in CSV format"""
                        
                                data = self.dict()
                                out = StringIO()
                                writer = csv.writer(out, delimiter=delimiter, lineterminator='')
                                row = [data['server']['id'], data['server']['sponsor'],
                                       data['server']['name'], data['timestamp'],
                                       data['server']['d'], data['ping'], data['download'],
                                       data['upload']]
                                writer.writerow([to_utf8(v) for v in row])
                        ->      f = urllib2.urlopen(baseURL + "&field1=%s&field2=%s&field3=%s" % (self.ping, self.download, self.upload))
                        ->      print f.read()
                        ->      f.close ()
                                return out.getvalue()
                        

                        Now run speedtest.py –server 1234 --csv and wait for it to finish, now check on ThingSpeak and check your three fields now have data.

                        I then put the command in my crontab:

                        */30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/python2.7 speedtest.py --server 1234 --csv >/dev/null 2>&1
                        
                        

                        and now every 30 minutes my firewall does a speed test and updates ThingSpeak, which I can check the lovely graphs and make sure I'm relatively consistently getting decent metrics.</the></your>

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                          Sergestux
                          last edited by

                          @mdmogren:

                          Just wanted to post this update here for others who use this tool - it is now a package and can be installed using

                          
                          pkg install py27-speedtest-cli
                          
                          

                          Then just run

                          ./usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli
                          

                          Gracias era lo que buscaba

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                          • cukalC
                            cukal @icewraithuk
                            last edited by

                            @icewraithuk What a great hack & thanks for letting me discover ThingSpeak!

                            I changed the output from bits/sec to Mbit/sec:

                            f = urllib2.urlopen(baseURL + "&field1=%s&field2=%s&field3=%s" % (self.ping, int(self.download) / 1048576, int(self.upload) / 1048576))
                            
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                              S762
                              last edited by

                              Sorry, I know this is an old topic but how to I uninstall this package? I used the following to install but don't see it listed under the package manager and would like to remove it.

                              pkg install py27-speedtest-cli
                              
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                                RaidArray
                                last edited by

                                You should be able to do a "pkg remove <package name>" from the cli via ssh

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                                  S762 @RaidArray
                                  last edited by

                                  @raidarray said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                                  You should be able to do a "pkg remove <package name>" from the cli via ssh

                                  Thank you!

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                                    RaidArray
                                    last edited by RaidArray

                                    Hi all

                                    Not sure if this is still actively being requested but as a learning exercise for myself i've created a small widget that runs a speedtest from the dashboard happy to share. I'm not really a CLI guy so went down the GUI/Widget route.

                                    1 of 2 speed test options

                                    Full how to can be found @ https://www.spacejunk-inc.com/pfsense/widget/speedtest/2019/03/10/Speed-Test-Widget.html

                                    please let me know what you think, is it useful? how can i improve it?

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                                    • GertjanG
                                      Gertjan
                                      last edited by

                                      Nice !

                                      But keep in mind :

                                      @jimp said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                                      No, because speed testing from the firewall itself is inaccurate and unreliable. We don't want to encourage people to rely on bad data. See my previous response on this thread.

                                      @raidarray said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                                      how can i improve it?

                                      By adding the option to select the server being used to test ?
                                      Default, speed-test used the closed server on "the list".

                                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                      • provelsP
                                        provels @icewraithuk
                                        last edited by provels

                                        @icewraithuk said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                                        I use this to keep my ISP honest, which is a trick in itself :) For those that are interested here's my hack:

                                        Very cool. Greetings from the Future!

                                        EDIT - What fun! I was able to combine instructions from both @icewraithuk and @raidarray and throw this chart into the Dashboard using the dark theme. It runs the CLI speedtest against the lowest ping server every 10 minutes, posts to Thingspeak and the Dashboard reads back the Public feed.

                                        Screenshot_1.png

                                        Live Chart

                                        Peder

                                        MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
                                        BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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                                          kcallis @icewraithuk
                                          last edited by

                                          @icewraithuk Am I missing something or does one have to have a university or company email account? It definitely did not seem to like the gmail account!

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                                          • provelsP
                                            provels @kcallis
                                            last edited by provels

                                            @kcallis I just used an Outlook.com account. BTW, the post above from @icewraithuk was posted 2 years ago and it was his only post ever on the forum.

                                            PS - I found a cool chart in the ThingSpeak forums with a chart template that consolidates the CSV data produced by @icewraithuk 's method that I managed to modify to show my upload/download/ping data all in one chart, but you'll need to muddle through the edits manually. There are notes in the .html file that tell you where to put your info. Not saying it's the best data set, but a fun excercise anyway.
                                            https://community.thingspeak.com/forum/announcements/thingspeak-live-chart-multi-channel-second-axis-historical-data-csv-export/

                                            Screenshot_1.png

                                            Peder

                                            MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
                                            BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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