Monitor Internet Broadband service with a Raspberry Pi 4 and some Python
You can easily automate capturing broadband connection statistics with some Python code running on a Raspberry Pi, a Mac or, a PC. I used a Raspberry Pi 4 as my test appliance because it is cheap and can support 1GB/s ethernet connections. That means it is fast enough to service most residential or low-end commercial connections. I'm lazy and wanted the data to end up in a secure public cloud that could be populated and viewed from anywhere. We can send our broadband statistics from 1 or more locations and graph the different locations against each other. Any tool could be used. Monitoring One or Compare Two We wanted to compare two different internet provider's service levels. One provider is a FIOS 1GB down / 1GB up. The other is a cable service with 1GB down / 50MB up. The providers and the technology were different. We wanted to know if the complaints about one of the providers were valid. Relies on Speedtest.net infrastructure We're going t...