Record the speed of your Wi-Fi connection

Think your Wi-Fi connection is slow and want a record to show your internet provider? Look no further :smiley:.

Each time you record the WiFi's speed the results are appended to a records.txt file in JSON format. A set of charts can then be generated from this data.

[
  {"ping":38,"download":21.2,"upload":18,"day":"24/06/2019","time":"16:50"},
  {"ping":39,"download":22,"upload":17.6,"day":"24/06/2019","time":"17:50"},
  {"ping":54,"download":22.8,"upload":18,"day":"24/06/2019","time":"18:50"},
  ...
]

Install

npm install --global record-wifi-speed

Usage

Arguments

• wifiName: The name of the Wi-Fi network you wish to record the speed of. For example PLUSNET-1234.
• resultsDirectory: The directory which will contain the results of the speed tests and the generated charts. For example C:\Users\Bob\results. The directory will be generated with the following content:

results/
├── records.txt
└── charts/
    ├── download.html
    ├── download.png
    ├── download.svg
    ├── ping.html
    ├── ping.png
    ├── ping.svg
    ├── upload.html
    ├── upload.png
    └── upload.svg

• numberOfGroups (optional): The number of bars (groups) there will be on the generated charts. If this argument isn't provided then the default is 5.

Node

const { speedTest, generateCharts } = require('record-wifi-speed')

const wifiName = '...'
const resultsDirectory = '...'
const numberOfGroups = 10 // Optional argument, defaults to 5

speedTest({ wifiName, resultsDirectory })
generateCharts({ resultsDirectory, numberOfGroups })

CLI

You must have installed record-wifi-speed globally to run it on the CLI.

rws-run <wifiName> <resultsDirectory>
rws-charts <resultsDirectory> --number-of-groups <numberOfGroups>

Executable

You must have installed record-wifi-speed globally to run the executable.

The command rws-package creates an executable called record-wifi-speed.exe in your current directory.

rws-package
./record-wifi-speed.exe <wifiName> <resultsDirectory>

You might want to create a scheduled task which runs this executable periodically (for example with Windows Task Scheduler). It would then record your Wi-Fi speed in the background every period.

Updating from v1 to v2

See release notes