It shocks me how high quality your vids are when you're a fairly small TH-camr still. Keep up the great work man, I'm loving your stuff, genuinely fun to watch.
I have been experimenting with Docker and self hosted apps since I got a Pi 4 recently, so I have been searching some stuff up on TH-cam. This video was recommended and this is exactly what I need right now. Thanks so much, Tim. You got yourself a new subscriber.
I didn't know whether this video was about containers or self-hosting a speed tester. 😆 But thank you for this video uploader. I wasn't aware of the Libre Speed project. ❤️
It should be noted that this sort of test should be used very often, especially if you have sensitive network workloads. Obviously, this test will saturate your link to measure what it is capable of doing but in doing so takes bandwidth from other devices. Had something like this running hourly to keep tabs on internet speed and then questioned why my streaming would dip in quality every so often. :/
This is going to be great for the people I share Plex with. They can now know how fast their connection to Plex is and why or if they need to transcode.
Nice vid again, ps... i dont know if you can change it without reuploading but your public ip was visable for 1 second 68....... Just a friendly warning :p
I watched a lot of your videos, keep up the great work! Rancher looks like an excellent tool to tinker with Kubernetes. However, I couldn’t get it working on the Raspberry Pi 4 :-(
@@mrcolo. thanks for the suggestion. I tried portainer a while ago and didn’t like it because the Docker-compose version was outdated (IIRC v2.0)and I needed to use the features of the current version. Edit: I didn’t realize that portainer works with kubernetes and I’ll give it a shot. Thanks for the suggestion!
Tim have you tried to integrate this into Home Assistant. I know you are dabbling into HA now. Might be something slot if people in the HA community might be interested in.
another thing is you never mentioned what type of server you are running, ya your running the librespeed package, but are you using ubunto server to run your docker on?
Docker rancher install drives me nuts! 2 times my cluster feel apart because api server wasn't working! All my containers run on plain old docker with docker-compose and it runs all linuxserver images flawlessly ;)
Hi, the example doesn't work > I only get "No servers available" with renaming "example-multipleServers-full.html" to "index.html" - what do I wrong?!?
Very cool video! I am a recent sub to the channel, just getting my feet wet with Docker/Pi/etc. I see the value of self-hosting so I could test my speed while I'm on the go. But I also see a "security" risk by doing this. Are there precautions/steps we can take to prevent the bad guys from getting into my network via this "self-hosted" speed test? Do you have a video on making those precautions a reality?
Thank you! I think you would just take the normal precautions when exposing anything. SSL, IDS/IPS, only expose the port needed, segment your public workloads, etc... I don't have one yet, but great idea. Thank you!
Hey Tim, any idea how to find and add other public speed servers? I see where in the index.html file the information goes, but is there any list of public speedtest server IPs?
I had an automated Speedtest container set up logging to InfluxDB with a Grafana dashboard to keep my ISP honest, but when I rehosted docker that setup broke. Is there an easy way to throw up a dashboard for the database option of this?
Thx for the great video. I have installed librespeed on my pi-omv-docker. I can test my local speed with no problem but when it comes to multiple servers I get the "No servers available" message. My container port is 80 host port is 49153. Any opinion why this is happening? Should I forward some port or anything else? Little bit confused here :)
thats really cool, i dont like the fact that you have to use your private address and the port forwarding number to get to the internal speed test server. couldn't you make that with a domain name?
I am actually just using WSL + Windows Terminal + Ubuntu + default ssh client. You can see my guide for setting up your terminal like mine here th-cam.com/video/kL8iGErULiw/w-d-xo.html
awesome. thanks for this. can you guide us by making video on setup home hosting for our website exposed to external world on our home hosted kubernetes cluster and any risks apart from availability and electricity bill 😊
Running this on k3s ingressed through traefik2 slowed my speed results to 1/10 compared to connecting directly to the node. is it really that bad? Running something like nextcloud would also be slow as f..? Whats the point with kubernetes as opposed to just put it in plain docker?
Wow, even two years later your videos are still great :) But in 2023 I would prefer Speedtest-Tracker, because it constantly monitors your internet speeds and gives you historic data. Just uploaded a video on how to run it…
Nowadays, residential connection lowest supplied speeds exceed affordable VPS speeds. 300 vs 200 mbit/s for my case. iPerf makes more sense for LAN. And if you have problems with speeds on devices that do not have iperf port that usually means that the whole subnet has issues and you should not troubleshoot it from this device anyway. Even Android and iOS have terminal.
Good luck trying to run that on a Nintendo switch, Xbox, PlayStation, smart TV, or getting end users in an enterprise doing anything in a terminal ;) Yes, there are better tools out there for different use cases, especially if you are a network engineer - this is just another tool to add to your toolbox.
When i click on the privacy link it stated that data are collected for several reasons. I use this as a self-hosted service running on my docker service as a container. Does this app still collect my data despite the fact that I'm running it self-hosted?
I don't' believe so. I thought the same thing and actually looked at the original docker image that linuxserver uses. That docker images allows you to turn this off and on however the default value was false so it should always be set to false (last I checked)
Question: when I run the ls command on the /config directory on my server, I don't see any of the .html files referenced. I went back through the tutorial a couple of times to see if perhaps I missed a step, but not able to see where I might have done so....suggestions anyone?
I Installed this on my QNAP NAS TS231p. Its working but I get slow Download speeds of around 50Mbits but 1000Mbits Upload.. Whats wrong? I edited the garbage.php a little and its slightly better but not Gigabit :/
lol garbage php 😀 well, is your NAS uploading anything else? Is it CPU bound during this time? Is it over wireless? Lots of factors. Check metrics on NAS for a clue.
Sure, anything's possible with code but you would have to write quite a bit. You would have to run the test on a timer, then save it to a database, and then show the stats for a year.
@@TechnoTim If you ignore the final result display. I think it is supposed to automatically stop after a number of seconds, or when it reaches a specified amount of transfer, so I think it could be done by removing that restriction, but is it difficult?
Rip flash rofl. While I like your videos, I think it would be great you gave a bit more contect to each step, and why one would use the different tech stacks, if these are for educational purposes you should assume people don't know too much about it, just some friendly advice :)
If you watch his other videos, he does explain all of the concepts and tools he’s using here, such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, etc. I totally get what you’re saying, however I think there’s a balance he’s trying to strike here between video length/content repetition and giving just enough context to understand what’s going on. It may be helpful to think of this as a continuation of a series instead of a one-off. Have a good one!
JEEZ Who do you have as your ISP? I can't find ANYONE who'll give me more than 25Mbit/s upload... I'd swap to whomever you use in an actual HEARTBEAT O-O
8:27 my internet connection WILL show these speeds! :-D I have fiber optic will gigabit up and down. I guess I'm lucky to be in a service area for this.
@@TechnoTim There’s not really a good reason to use Java for a browser based speed test, so perhaps there’s a bit of a “Maslow’s hammer” situation at play on the part of the authors (cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool). Thanks for the great video too btw - these home lab services and hardware videos are super cool and informative!
What's your internet speed? Mine is 300 up / 300 down! 🔥
40/10 up/dw ... i just had to move because of a break-up so i'm too broke at the moment to afford more here lol
150 up / 150 Down
1 Gbps up / 1 Gbps down fiber
1000/50 because german cable providers are afraid of us hosting servers :D that's why the "small" upload.
Ahhh crap should have waiting till this morning...instead of fiddling around with OpenSpeedtest last night....thanks for the help
It shocks me how high quality your vids are when you're a fairly small TH-camr still. Keep up the great work man, I'm loving your stuff, genuinely fun to watch.
I have been experimenting with Docker and self hosted apps since I got a Pi 4 recently, so I have been searching some stuff up on TH-cam. This video was recommended and this is exactly what I need right now. Thanks so much, Tim. You got yourself a new subscriber.
Thank you so much!
I didn't know whether this video was about containers or self-hosting a speed tester. 😆 But thank you for this video uploader. I wasn't aware of the Libre Speed project. ❤️
Glad it was helpful!
It should be noted that this sort of test should be used very often, especially if you have sensitive network workloads. Obviously, this test will saturate your link to measure what it is capable of doing but in doing so takes bandwidth from other devices. Had something like this running hourly to keep tabs on internet speed and then questioned why my streaming would dip in quality every so often. :/
QoS
As someone involved in the project - great video!
Thank you!
Hi, I followed Tim's procedures and ended up with "No servers available". Is there a way to solve it? Thanks
Great video Tim! It's very useful. Could you make a video about Grafana, InfluxDB and telegraf on Docker? It could be very interesting!
Possibly!
@@TechnoTim I can't wait 🤪
I'm working on netbox docker instance on macos. Very interesting, first time docker user. Long time Network engineer and IT Engineer
+1 for InfluxDB. Time series DBs are the hot item these days
Great stuff Tim! This was something I didn't know I needed until I watched...super handy with wifi/network diagnostics too!
Great to hear!
This is going to be great for the people I share Plex with. They can now know how fast their connection to Plex is and why or if they need to transcode.
This is a great tool! Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Nice vid again, ps... i dont know if you can change it without reuploading but your public ip was visable for 1 second 68.......
Just a friendly warning :p
I'm so glad I found this channel
Thank you!
RIP Flash, lol
💀
Great video Tim, as always😁
I watched a lot of your videos, keep up the great work! Rancher looks like an excellent tool to tinker with Kubernetes. However, I couldn’t get it working on the Raspberry Pi 4 :-(
Try to use portainer
@@mrcolo. thanks for the suggestion. I tried portainer a while ago and didn’t like it because the Docker-compose version was outdated (IIRC v2.0)and I needed to use the features of the current version.
Edit: I didn’t realize that portainer works with kubernetes and I’ll give it a shot. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
Thank you so much! You too!
specialy love the "no bullshit" - part :)
Achso, ich denke dieses Bild kenne ich von irgendwo :)
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I see, I think I recognise your profile picture :)
Thanks! I was just quoting LibreSpeed's tagline!
Tim have you tried to integrate this into Home Assistant. I know you are dabbling into HA now. Might be something slot if people in the HA community might be interested in.
I have not yet! Does it work?
another thing is you never mentioned what type of server you are running, ya your running the librespeed package, but are you using ubunto server to run your docker on?
Great video, amazing work! :)
Nice, just found a new mini project to dive into :)
Hope you enjoy it!
Docker rancher install drives me nuts! 2 times my cluster feel apart because api server wasn't working! All my containers run on plain old docker with docker-compose and it runs all linuxserver images flawlessly ;)
Sorry!
Excellent Video. Thanks. 40 up / 100 down.
Hi, the example doesn't work > I only get "No servers available" with renaming "example-multipleServers-full.html" to "index.html" - what do I wrong?!?
Great Video , Thanks , how can edit index.html file in docker direclty without using rancher , any suggestions plz.
Hi Tim! Be in a video with subtitles, you are being watched from Russia. The video is cool. Good luck
Thank you! Greetings from the US!
Very cool video! I am a recent sub to the channel, just getting my feet wet with Docker/Pi/etc. I see the value of self-hosting so I could test my speed while I'm on the go. But I also see a "security" risk by doing this. Are there precautions/steps we can take to prevent the bad guys from getting into my network via this "self-hosted" speed test? Do you have a video on making those precautions a reality?
Thank you! I think you would just take the normal precautions when exposing anything. SSL, IDS/IPS, only expose the port needed, segment your public workloads, etc... I don't have one yet, but great idea. Thank you!
So this would be a "one click" install version of iperf?
No Server Available when using multiserver, any solution? Thanks
Hey Tim, any idea how to find and add other public speed servers? I see where in the index.html file the information goes, but is there any list of public speedtest server IPs?
Not sure, you might want to check their GitHub repo!
I had an automated Speedtest container set up logging to InfluxDB with a Grafana dashboard to keep my ISP honest, but when I rehosted docker that setup broke. Is there an easy way to throw up a dashboard for the database option of this?
Not sure with this container, you’d have to look to see if it saves the results and then send them to your storage
Thx for the great video. I have installed librespeed on my pi-omv-docker. I can test my local speed with no problem but when it comes to multiple servers I get the "No servers available" message. My container port is 80 host port is 49153. Any opinion why this is happening? Should I forward some port or anything else? Little bit confused here :)
Same with me. Did you figure out the problem?
thats really cool, i dont like the fact that you have to use your private address and the port forwarding number to get to the internal speed test server. couldn't you make that with a domain name?
Can i use this for testing the speed of a container? Let say i have a container with Deluge VPN installed. How can i measure my download speed?
Almost 30k
You're killing it man!
Thank you!
What SSH client are you using? SolarPutty?
I am actually just using WSL + Windows Terminal + Ubuntu + default ssh client. You can see my guide for setting up your terminal like mine here th-cam.com/video/kL8iGErULiw/w-d-xo.html
This is new I’m going have to try this one
Lmk!
awesome. thanks for this. can you guide us by making video on setup home hosting for our website exposed to external world on our home hosted kubernetes cluster and any risks apart from availability and electricity bill 😊
You are on track ;)
Running this on k3s ingressed through traefik2 slowed my speed results to 1/10 compared to connecting directly to the node. is it really that bad? Running something like nextcloud would also be slow as f..? Whats the point with kubernetes as opposed to just put it in plain docker?
Not sure, I run mine in k3s and don't see any speed difference.
not great for 10G network testing but works find for just testing upto about 3.5 Gbs
Wow, even two years later your videos are still great :) But in 2023 I would prefer Speedtest-Tracker, because it constantly monitors your internet speeds and gives you historic data. Just uploaded a video on how to run it…
hahahah once again! I have this already setup before you!
Nice!
Thank you.
Nowadays, residential connection lowest supplied speeds exceed affordable VPS speeds. 300 vs 200 mbit/s for my case.
iPerf makes more sense for LAN. And if you have problems with speeds on devices that do not have iperf port that usually means that the whole subnet has issues and you should not troubleshoot it from this device anyway. Even Android and iOS have terminal.
Good luck trying to run that on a Nintendo switch, Xbox, PlayStation, smart TV, or getting end users in an enterprise doing anything in a terminal ;) Yes, there are better tools out there for different use cases, especially if you are a network engineer - this is just another tool to add to your toolbox.
When i click on the privacy link it stated that data are collected for several reasons. I use this as a self-hosted service running on my docker service as a container. Does this app still collect my data despite the fact that I'm running it self-hosted?
I don't' believe so. I thought the same thing and actually looked at the original docker image that linuxserver uses. That docker images allows you to turn this off and on however the default value was false so it should always be set to false (last I checked)
Question: when I run the ls command on the /config directory on my server, I don't see any of the .html files referenced. I went back through the tutorial a couple of times to see if perhaps I missed a step, but not able to see where I might have done so....suggestions anyone?
Perhaps you didn't bind this properly? If you don't see any files it means your container is not mounting the host file system
@@TechnoTim hmm. I thought I followed the instructions to a “T”. I’ll have to double check
u earned a sub. can you tackle how the librespeed for the android version?
I Installed this on my QNAP NAS TS231p. Its working but I get slow Download speeds of around 50Mbits but 1000Mbits Upload.. Whats wrong? I edited the garbage.php a little and its slightly better but not Gigabit :/
lol garbage php 😀 well, is your NAS uploading anything else? Is it CPU bound during this time? Is it over wireless? Lots of factors. Check metrics on NAS for a clue.
Cool!
Thx great info
That was a very very complicated way to say "use iperf".
Thankyou
Nvrmd its the YT algorythim doing its thing.
Can I conduct a speed test via CLI?
RIP Flash
Is it possible to rewrite the code, for example, to have a speed test for a whole year?
Sure, anything's possible with code but you would have to write quite a bit. You would have to run the test on a timer, then save it to a database, and then show the stats for a year.
@@TechnoTim If you ignore the final result display.
I think it is supposed to automatically stop after a number of seconds, or when it reaches a specified amount of transfer, so I think it could be done by removing that restriction, but is it difficult?
Can I use this to check my comcast speeds to make sure that I'm actually getting Gigabit down?
You'd have to find someone hosting this page remotely!
@@TechnoTim Sounds like I could just spin one up in a remote Digital Ocean droplet or AWS host 😁
I run game servers from my house, it would be useful if my players could run this speedtest to see their speed and latency from the game server
Sure, self hosted it and give them the URL!
Rip flash rofl. While I like your videos, I think it would be great you gave a bit more contect to each step, and why one would use the different tech stacks, if these are for educational purposes you should assume people don't know too much about it, just some friendly advice :)
Thank you for the feedback!
If you watch his other videos, he does explain all of the concepts and tools he’s using here, such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, etc. I totally get what you’re saying, however I think there’s a balance he’s trying to strike here between video length/content repetition and giving just enough context to understand what’s going on. It may be helpful to think of this as a continuation of a series instead of a one-off. Have a good one!
when did iperf start to suck, that I need a website??
because it works on any device with a browser
Why is every DIY self host Docker YT Channel, doing speed test tutorials this week?
JEEZ Who do you have as your ISP? I can't find ANYONE who'll give me more than 25Mbit/s upload... I'd swap to whomever you use in an actual HEARTBEAT O-O
Fiber Internets!
How I can get this tool
By following this guide 😀
8:27 my internet connection WILL show these speeds! :-D I have fiber optic will gigabit up and down. I guess I'm lucky to be in a service area for this.
Lucky!
just use okala speedtest CLI lol
And send all your data to ookla! 😀
@@TechnoTim ahhhhhh no? it's a pre-hashed file from ookla that is reoploaded. try reading the source code next time :)
@@ArclampSDR where did you find the source code?
@@flexagonpark5467 on the website?
@@ArclampSDR I didn't find source code there. Send a link, please
ok so your vids R obvious, for the very noobs. i missunderstoon when subbed
Java isn't trash! 😠
It's not, but internet speed tests that contain it are!
@@TechnoTim There’s not really a good reason to use Java for a browser based speed test, so perhaps there’s a bit of a “Maslow’s hammer” situation at play on the part of the authors (cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool). Thanks for the great video too btw - these home lab services and hardware videos are super cool and informative!