I need to aggregate speed test data from my users who are WFH on company equipment.
Something like - run a speed test once a day then add it into a full report I can make a dashboard out of.
We are struggling with justifying users to WFH because of internet issues.
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Looking to measure jitter, latency, and packet loss between two sites. Our VoIP solution and WFH users are struggling to understand why their connection sometimes comes into play with call quality.
Early in Covid, my last company installed LibreSpeed to the company data centers to have as a gauge for speed to company resources over VPN. GitHub - librespeed/speedtest: Self-hosted Speed Test for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more
Speed test back to your company’s servers, or speed test out to some online speed testing site?
As a note, a raw speed test might not really be all that useful, because there are a lot of factors that go into how viable working remotely can be. For example, are users connecting back to the corporate network over a VPN? How are they interacting with servers, is it some form of terminal services, SMB, SFTP, http/https? If it’s SMB, SMB remotely will pretty much always suck, even with a fast internet connection, it’s not made for that use case.
And honestly, even beyond that, internet speed shouldn’t be the metric used for allowing WFH. Your employees should have key performance metrics that are being measured, and if they’re able to maintain acceptable levels of performance working remotely, then that should be acceptable, regardless of internet connection speed. That being said, as long as the company is providing the tools to work remotely, but the employee is providing their own internet connection, it’s not on the company to troubleshoot that internet connection. We typically troubleshoot so far as to determine if the issues are caused by the company provided tools or the employee’s own personal internet, if it’s the company provided tools, we work to resolve, if it’s the employee’s personal internet connection, we don’t (well, we try to help a little, but limit how much troubleshooting we’ll do.)
Id recommend https://speed.cloudflare.com
I use Ookla speed test CLi with a PowerShell script.
iperf3 is great and easy to use and deploy. It’s open source, free to use and multi platform and I think it can fulfill all your requirements.
If you use Zscaler at your organization, they have ZScaler Digital Experience (ZDX) that’s useful for deep diving into network related issues for specific apps etc.
A generalized speed test to a random speed test server may not be fruitful depending on how your network is setup.
Of course be mindful that running speed tests can also eat up tons of bandwidth and your users will definitely start seeing more connectivity issues when your speed test job runs.
Speedtest.net offers an EXE that you can push to all the workstations and run a script via CLI to gather your results if you like. Then just setup a collector script of some sort or utilize some API to store the data for you so you can analyze the results.
If you can spend money I recommend Cisco Thousandeyes or Riverbed Aternity
If you can’t you can do some powershell scripting to run a few tests and send them to a central place, but it’s not trivial to set something like this up. From an old r/sysadmin thread: Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring internet speeds (cyberdrain.com)
Some other ideas: if you use Teams the call quality dashboard has some good stats but only if they use Teams. If you use a VPN some can aggregate some basic statistics for remote users.
Check NetBeez out. It supports network speed tests, iperf, and ping for latency, packet loss, jitter and more. All data is aggregated and can be analyzed in real-time and via reports etc.
I just started to look at this tool from Pingplotter. Reduce Internet Downtime with Distributed Network Monitoring
I know it’s been mentioned already but my org uses this self-hosted speed test to measure internal speeds between clients and our datacenter. Might be useful if you have a on-prem solution you’re testing to. Tests for download, upload, ping, and jitter.
I am mainly testing for jitter, latency, and packet loss related to call quality while using a popular VoIP solution
Give the guys at Pingman Tools a call. Pingplotter meets a lot of your needs.
There would be a lot of variables to consider. What are you testing? If it is just their Internet speed that would be largely useless if they need to do everything over a VPN and the incoming connection to the VPN is slow.
How the apps they use behave also has a large impact. Do they manipulate large files frequently over a VPN, that could really suck.
For other stuff you might be able to put together a Powershell script that writes everything to a DB.
This sounds like a job for iPerf.
this is a great website for measuring jitter and connection quality
ThousandEyes has https://www.thousandeyes.com/product/end-user-monitoring
The other option (but it only works if your using Cloudflare Tunnels) is the Cloudflare Access DEX tools. It doesn’t have a built in speedtest per say, but you can query say a 5MB file every hour or something, and then use the time it takes to fetch said file as a rough measurement of speed.
ControlUp on the physical device will report their internet speeds.
Where are you located? In the US 98% of Americans have broadband connections. What “Internet” issues are they experiencing?
This sounds more like your VPN can’t keep up, or management is looking for an excuse to RTO.