I have been wondering lately what my 'true' connection speed is on my AT&T 6mbit connection (advertised) as I usually ever see up to ~5mbit throughput.
What I would like to do is almost like a periodic (every 20 min or so) speedtest, that would get logged (script / app).
I could use speedtest.net (api?) or something else. Really it doesn't matter to me I would like to just have something run for 24 hours, or 48 hours, and get a large sample size (without me hitting the trigger each time).
One of the questions on here I've found that I think somewhat touches on this is: A truer gauge of network speed
But its not well formatted as an 'end result should be A' question.
Anyone try doing this? I'm not talking just pinging and latency, but the whole shebang. I can do this either Linux / Win 7 flavor.
Thoughts? Would this really get me 'truer' feedback tho? My thinking is that it would give me an accurate representation of fluctuations in my ISPs provided speed (I would assume faster during the night vs day, hour of the day difference... etc)
