Measure (repeatedly) your broadband speed using Fast.com in a headless browser
HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL BUT ALSO TOTALLY HARMLESS
Measure (repeatedly) your broadband speed using Fast.com in a headless browser.
Yes, WiFi isn't broadband and broadband isn't WiFi but ultimately, what is the speed you get on Fast.com? That's the speed of your connection to the Interwebs. The WiFi from your laptop to your router is unlikely to be the bottleneck so this ultimately measures your broadband.
This is a NodeJS script that opens https://fast.com with a headless
browser, hangs on till it gets a speed measurement. Then it records this
number in a database.
You run it like this:
node index.js
The goal is to comprehend how your Internet speed is fluctuating. Perhaps Comcast is telling, for $100 a month you get "Up to 75Gbps" but what good is that if it turns out it hovers around 0.5Gbps most of the time?
Like this:
Yeah, it ain't pretty. Neither in the code but it's a start.
MIT.
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Measure (repeatedly) your broadband speed using Fast.com in a headless browser
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