WAN speed testing

[Marko Polo]

Hi,
is there any builtin speed testing tool in Merlin? I need strong evidences in my struggle with ISP.
Or my only choice is Entware and iperf?

 

[JDB]

I use this https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli

You have to run it with the low RAM option for upload cache


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[Marko Polo]

the low RAM option for upload cache

what do you mean?

 

[JDB]

It has a flag which makes it not pre-load the RAM with upload data. Just run it and see what the options are, it should be obvious.


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[joegreat]

what do you mean?

This command line option:
--no-pre-allocate Do not pre allocate upload data. Pre allocation is
enabled by default to improve upload performance. To
support systems with insufficient memory, use this
option to avoid a MemoryError

 

[Marko Polo]

This command line option:

Even with this option I get "memory insufficient error":

XXXXXX@Mezcal:/tmp/home/root# speedtest-cli --no-pre-allocate
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from XXXXXXXXXX (XX.XXX.XXX.XXX)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [0.52 km]: 5.4080000000000004 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 47.58 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed.............................................................................Exception in thread Thread-85:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 766, in pre_allocate
    (chars * multiplier)[0:int(self.length) - 9]
MemoryError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/threading.py", line 916, in _bootstrap_inner
  File "/opt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 823, in run
    f = self._opener(request)
  File "/request.py", line 526, in open
  File "/request.py", line 544, in _open
  File "/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
  File "/opt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 464, in http_open
    req
  File "/request.py", line 1318, in do_open
  File "/client.py", line 1239, in request
  File "/client.py", line 1285, in _send_request
  File "/client.py", line 1234, in endheaders
  File "/client.py", line 1055, in _send_output
  File "/client.py", line 1010, in _read_readable
  File "/opt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 784, in read
    chunk = self.data.read(n)
  File "/opt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 778, in data
    self.pre_allocate()
  File "/opt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 771, in pre_allocate
    'Insufficient memory to pre-allocate upload data. Please '
speedtest.SpeedtestCLIError: Insufficient memory to pre-allocate upload data. Please use --no-pre-allocate

 

[JDB]

Looks like it’s not recognising the option you passed in, not sure why.


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[jpclarke]

Hi, I combine the speedtest cli with Fresh_JR’s qos script to regularly update the manual bandwidth figures regularly and get the best of my broadband speed.

I run the speedtest script on a raspberry pi which logs the speeds to a text file on the router, a script then picks these values up and updates the nvram values.

Thanks

 

[Marko Polo]

It would be nice to build-in some speed testing tool into Merlin out-of-the-box.

 

[Sinner]

It would be nice to build-in some speed testing tool into Merlin out-of-the-box.

Yeh that would be amazing actually

 

[RMerlin]

There used to be one in the Broadcom SDK that Asus kept disabled by default, but they eventually removed it because it was proprietary and not GPL.

 

[Adamm]

A pretty generic way to test download speeds is downloading a test file from a CDN provider;

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

 

[jpclarke]

The good thing with using speedtest cli is it gives you up speed too

 

[Sinner]

I was trying to get that speedtest cli into notepad++ but didn't seem like I was copying it correctly. will keep trying id like to see how that works

 

[Squirrel_UK]

I've just got my new RT-AC86U and am trying to use speedtest-cli and am also getting the same error, even with the--no-pre-allocate command line argument.

XXXXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXXXXXXXXX:/tmp/home/root# speedtest --no-pre-allocate
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from XXXXXXXXXXXXX (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by XXXXXXXXXXXXX [44.67 km]: 29.283 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 36.45 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed.............................Exception in thread Thread-62:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 823, in run
    f = self._opener(request)
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 464, in http_open
    req
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1195, in do_open
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1042, in request
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1082, in _send_request
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1038, in endheaders
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 886, in _send_output
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 853, in send
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 784, in read
    chunk = self.data.read(n)
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 778, in data
    self.pre_allocate()
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 771, in pre_allocate
    'Insufficient memory to pre-allocate upload data. Please '
SpeedtestCLIError: Insufficient memory to pre-allocate upload data. Please use --no-pre-allocate

There's a whole load more thread exceptions and finally there's this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/bin/speedtest", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 1832, in main
    shell()
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 1802, in shell
    speedtest.upload(callback=callback, pre_allocate=args.pre_allocate)
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speedtest.py", line 1523, in upload
    self.results.bytes_sent = sum(finished)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'NoneType'

Has anyone got any ideas on how I can get it to work?

Cheers!