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1346373 2013-06-19 09:03:00 Hi,

I am having a discussion/argument with my broadband provider/Chorus about the broadband speed at my place. They have asked me to provide screenshots of regular speedtests taken throughout the day, to pinpoint the issue.

I have done the speedtest on speedtest.net, consumer online etc.

Is there a program that can do this automatically throughout the day, and collate the data into a graph etc?

I have googled this, and have only come up with testmy.net, which is an american site which gives different readings to the ones Chorus will be looking for i.e. a 10MB/s on Speedtest.net reads as 2.5MB/s on testmy.net.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


Cheersss
camo (4895)
1346374 2013-06-19 10:52:00 You're probably better off with installing LogMeIn and using that instead so that you can remotely login and save the speeds. Chilling_Silence (9)
1346375 2013-06-19 11:03:00 Actually, here's something I just quickly whipped together.
Download this file
Extract it
Run the file called "loop" and then just sit back and watch.
After 24 hours you'll have a nice shiny file called "logfile" that you can email off to Telecom which has the times in it along with the speeds it downloaded at. It should be *more* than ample for them:
speedtest.zip (1.5 MB)
mega.co.nz QN1M

Let me know how you go :)
Chilling_Silence (9)
1346376 2013-06-20 08:11:00 You're a blardy legend! Will let you know how I go! camo (4895)
1346377 2013-06-20 10:21:00 speedtest.zip (1.5 MB)

Well, I'm certainly NOT impressed with Mega -
- firstly, it said that my browser needed updating but Opera said it was fine.
- secondly, Firefox said that Mega wanted to download 50MB "for offline use" when your file was only 1.5MB. When I declined to allow that, it wouldn't give me your zip file.
decibel (11645)
1346378 2013-06-20 10:33:00 Me too. Tried with FF, Mega says the file has been downloaded but nothing in my folder! Fiddled with it 4~5 times and finally got it but don't ask me how I got it. bk T (215)
1346379 2013-06-20 11:10:00 What happens is it downloads the file into your browser "cache" then gives you a link to click on where it "downloads" it locally from your PC to your PC. It has to do that because of the encryption. Chilling_Silence (9)
1346380 2013-06-21 07:37:00 ... It has to do that because of the encryption.
Does it do this every time or just the once ?
decibel (11645)
1346381 2013-06-21 08:02:00 Every single download :) Chilling_Silence (9)
1346382 2013-06-22 10:50:00 And presumably this 50MB gets deleted at the end of the process or does it keep filing up your hard drive?? decibel (11645)
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