Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box

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