[Cialug] speedtest-cli lies!!!

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Aug 20 02:20:36 UTC 2020


Are you sure that it's the CLI lying? Some ISPs are known to mess with
traffic so that Speedtest and other speed tests give favorable results.
Perhaps they are messing with the way the GUI tests but not the CLI.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 8:20 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> Seeing a big difference between GUI version & CLI version:
>
>  * Same target server
>  & CLI can be bound to source IP, .. GUI must have 2nd IF shutdown
>  * 2nd IF up/down, no difference
>
>         GUI     Down OK         Up OK
>         CLI     Down OK         Up 1/5 of GUI!!!
>
> Consistant all day, .. any possible reason? Need to have CLI function
> properly for Nagios check.
>
>         Thanks!
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