This somehow seems worse then the original speedtest

[atv2016]

No offence - but i have a 1Gbps connections, but somehow i get results like :

License acceptance recorded. Continuing.
[23:26:17] INFO: --------- Speed test ended ---------
[23:26:17] INFO: Download measured: 166.62
[23:26:17] INFO: Upload: 91.86
[23:26:17] INFO: Ping: 8.502
[23:26:17] INFO: --------- ---------
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[23:26:17] INFO: Speedtest Download updated
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[23:26:17] INFO: Speedtest Upload updated
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[23:26:18] INFO: Speedtest Ping updated

The old speedtest used to give me somewhere between 400 - 600 on a good day. Still wildly inaccurate of course.
I'm running this in VMware on a bridged network connection. I checked the /sys/net/speed file and it's a 1000, so it is getting that right.

[MrSuicideParrot]

I'm using the official Speedtest binary, so I don't believe the issue is from the plugin itself.

500mb with the Speedtest that is embedded on home assistant?

Are you specifying a Speedtest server? Is the same that you used with the 500mb tests?

[thorwb]

would it be better/possible to use the speedtest++ from https://github.com/taganaka/SpeedTest instead?

[MrSuicideParrot]

@thorwb I don't see any advantage in using an unofficial speedtest client. Even if I believed this third-party implementation offers better performance than the official client, for some reason, if speedtest changes its API this would broke this project without any assurance that the speedtest++ would update its project. The speedtest++ seems a reverse engineering effort and that requires time.

[thorwb]

@MrSuicideParrot fair point, thank you for the reply

[cociweb]

+1 for speedtest++ consideration.

Please note that Ookla's speedtest cli uses HTTP protocol instead of the raw TCP protocol, what the webgui and the speedtest++ uses. That's why the official speedtest integration and the addon have inaccurate measurements.

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