Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box

Sergei_Shablovsky

I still STRONGLY NOT RECOMMEND testing uplink speed by speedtest - nowadays MOST ISP creating special ACLs and ruleset for speedtest servers BOTH on aggregate level and on core level to “looks better than counterpart that You compare to”.

By other words, all speedtest results would be looks really great (hi speed, low latency, low jitter..) BUT all Your REAL traffic would be not so good. ;)

And another one important factor: most ISP make a little shaping (frequently on aggregate level than on core) to pay a little less for traffic ;) Depend on state and ISP this may be -7-15% of total uplink bandwidth. As a result You have 85-93% of bandwidth You pay for.

But NO ONE of sysadmins told You this truth... No any conspiracy, just business.

And I RECOMMEND TO CONFIGURE FREEBSD TCP/IP STACK TO USING QUICK ALGORITHM, because most of nowadays ISPs use QUICK on both aggregate and core level.
(Please read posts about QUIC on this forum)

patrick.pesegodinski

@marco42

Can You send-me the tutorial to create the speedtest_cli.js?

MarcO42

@patrick-pesegodinski
Hi,
that files will be created and is only a property bag that is loaded when the widget is called.
Cheers

patrick.pesegodinski

@marco42 I don't understand your respost.

In the .zip no is included the speedtest-cli.js

stephenw10

speettest_cli.js is a temporary file that is created by speedtest.sh. It's not supposed to be in the file.

carbonejf

Hi,
Great script, il works well for me, but I ghave a little problem with speedtest.
I don't check every day the speed, and sometime it "stop" to work.
The reason is that speedtest don't send result because it s waiting that I accept the licence.
So i must connect with putty on my pfsence, start speedtest and validate licence:

speedtest
==============================================================================

Ookla collects certain data through Speedtest that may be considered
personally identifiable, such as your IP address, unique device
identifiers or location. Ookla believes it has a legitimate interest
to share this data with internet providers, hardware manufacturers and
industry regulators to help them understand and create a better and
faster internet. For further information including how the data may be
shared, where the data may be transferred and Ookla's contact details,
please see our Privacy Policy at:

       http://www.speedtest.net/privacy

==============================================================================

Do you accept the license? [type YES to accept]: YES
License acceptance recorded. Continuing.

Do you now a solution to stop to ask me to accept licence every month (or something like this)?

MarcO42

@carbonejf did you install it?
Like:

pkg install py37-speedtest-cli-2.1.3

carbonejf

@marco42 Sorry I did it a long time ago and I don't rememberhow I install it :(
I installed a package yes, but maybe not this one

MarcO42

@carbonejf Maybe you update or uninstall/reinstall to get the latest version? That could help.

carbonejf

@marco42 I don't use this version, my speedtest is: Speedtest by Ookla 1.0.0.2 (5ae238b) FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE amd64

MarcO42

@carbonejf Ok, that one I don't know, sorry.

patrick.pesegodinski

@icewraithuk how you import the "urllib2" in the pfsense?

I don't search for install.

patrick.pesegodinski

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

myAPI="<your api="" key="" goes="" here,="" in="" the="" quotes="">"
baseURL = 'https://api.thingspeak.com/update?api_key=%s' % myAPI
print baseURL</your>

The command "your' doens't work

provels

@patrick-pesegodinski said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

myAPI="<your api="" key="" goes="" here,="" in="" the="" quotes="">"

myAPI="put_key_here"

PS - That post was the only one that user ever made, and besides it was about 6 years ago.

patrick.pesegodinski

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

@patrick-pesegodinski said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

myAPI="<your api="" key="" goes="" here,="" in="" the="" quotes="">"

myAPI="put_key_here"

PS - That post was the only one that user ever made, and besides it was about 6 years ago.

I think the command for python 3.8 was changed. I connect with this command:

import urllib.request

baseURL = 'https://api.thingspeak.com/update?api_key=MY_KEY=0'

Gertjan

@patrick-pesegodinski said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

how you import the "urllib2" in the pfsense?

Here :
/usr/local/lib/python3.9/urllib
/usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib

It's already there.
If it isn't, mention your pfSense version.
Then I'll tell you to upgrade ;)

Install FreeBSD packages (not from Netgate) yourself on pfSense : that's not a good idea.

chrcoluk

For modern pfSense, I just did this. (new download link also)

fetch -o speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py
chmod +x speedtest-cli

Then edit first line of speedtest-cli to the following.

#!/usr/bin/env python3.8

Should run at this point, no need to install extra dependency packages.

As Jim said, it might be slower than from a fast client device as pfSense is optimised for routing.

I got about 600 down on the cli, but then immediately did a test on my PC which got 954mbit down (gigabit connection). But I think having this as an option to help diagnose issues can be useful hence I installed it.

Gertjan

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

For modern pfSense

Not for my 23.01 then, as it doesn't have python3.8

asulwer

with some minor changes this worked for me on version 24.03-release

pkg search speedtest
py311-speedtest-cli-2.1.3      Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth

use this command to install

pkg update ; pkg install -y py311-speedtest-cli && curl -o /usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/speedtest.widget.php https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aln-1/pfsense-speedtest-widget/master/speedtest.widget.php