speedtest

Speed Tests

A self running app that performs network bandwidth speed test.

It uses speedtest.net, Cloud Flare and MLabs for the Internet test. For the direct server test Iperf 3.0 is used.

Features

• Run Iperf tests on multiple clients simultaneously to just one Iperf3 server.

• Run multiple Internet speed tests for comparison.

• Repeat tests consistenly at minute interval times (0 min is the default meaning run ONCE).

• Saves the result to a log file in the same location as the executable for documentation.

• Run All tests together or seperately as one time test or on continuous interval.

• Allows you to save a congifuration file to distribute settings to other users.

• Send e-mail of test results to desired e-mail recipient using direct SMTP or plug into Outlook desktop.

• Options you can change:

  • Port number of the Iperf server
  • Repeat test time interval
  • MSS segment size for advanced LAN testing with Iperf3
  • View browser with Cloudflare & MLabs speed test
  • Custom Email settings

How to Run

• Setup iperf on a remote server. Default port is 5201. use -p portnumber to change
• On server:

sudo apt install iperf3
iperf3 -s -p 5201

• On Client: Run latest .exe release
  • Option 1: Run All tests. Selected Internet Speed Tests and Iperf3.
  • Option 2: Internet speeds tests only.
  • Option 3: Iperf test only.
  • Option 4: Change additional settings which are shown green in the toolbar.
  • Option 5: Save configuration as 'settings.json' in current directory.

Troubleshoot

If you are running this behind a firewall or an internal proxy that blocks direct access to the public resources then you will see one or all of these errors:

Error Installing Components need for Tests. Internet is inaccessible:
Error: self signed certificate in certificate chain. 
Error: unable to get local issuer certificate
code: 'UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY'

This occurs becuase during the Internet Speed test chromium files are needed and downloaded from the Microsoft CDN. This is a one time download but is needed for the Internet speed tests. The requests get intercepted with a custom untrusted certificate authority (CA) and it yields the above error. To fix this add a copy of your custom root certificate (cert.pem) that verifies your proxy server in the same directory as this executable.