{"id":647,"date":"2020-02-07T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/?p=647"},"modified":"2020-02-07T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:00:06","slug":"pfsense-speedtest-from-gui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"pfsense speedtest from GUI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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STEP BY STEP<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Login into pfSense and Go to Diagnostics > Command Prompt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Install SpeedTest-CLI command-line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll do this by pasting the following command into the \u2018Execute Shell Command\u2019<\/strong> box and press the \u2018Execute\u2019<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1<\/td>pkg update ; pkg install -y py27-speedtest-cli<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Speedtest-CLI<\/a> package will be installed into \/usr\/local\/bin<\/strong> directory, which (by default) is already on PATH in FreeBSD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So once the above is done, we can simply clear the \u2018Execute Shell Command\u2019 box, type in the \u2018speedtest<\/em>\u2018 command and press the \u2018Execute\u2019 button.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result of the SpeedTest.net test executed directly on your pfSense router\u2019s WAN connection will be displayed on the screen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s pretty much it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: If you do not want to do this through GUI, run the same commands directly in the command-line interface of pfSense, by using the command line option #8:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s just 3 commands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12345<\/td>pkg update pkg install -y py27-speedtest-cli speedtest<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I hope this helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019re planning to configure it as a cron job and output the results into CSV, you can run it as a parsed result file<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/td>speedtest | awk -v FS=”(: | ms| Mbit\/s)” ‘{print $2}’ | tr ‘\\n’ ‘,’ | sed ‘s\/^…..\/\/’ | sed ‘s\/.\\{2\\}$\/\/’ | sed ‘s\/,\\{2,\\}\/,\/g’<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The results will show as a comma-separated output with three values (PING in milliseconds, DOWNLOAD in Mbps and UPLOAD in Mbps):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This could set someone with a little more time on the right path. Just append \u2018>> speedtest.txt\u2019 to the end of the above command and it\u2019ll save the result to a text file.Or another way is to simply use the native CSV output and run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/td>speedtest –csv-header; speedtest –csv<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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