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But you are still tasked with proving that, “It’s Not the Network.” If you have a few years’ experience in network troubleshooting, you know that when you receive a ticket from a user complaining about “slowness”, in most cases, it’s the user’s device or the application. Once saved it will quickly and easily run a speedtest anytime you double-click the file.(TL DR: this is a write up of the talk I gave at the Wireless LAN Professionals conference in February 2018 (watch the WLPC2018 talk on YouTube. offĮcho Test complete, please see result above.

Optionally you can create an empty text file on your desktop and rename it to SpeedTest.bat and then edit the program in Notepad and enter the below text (For the second line cd "%location%" please change %location% to whichever address the speedtest files have been extracted to, such as "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\ookla-speedtest-1.0.0-win64").

speedtest -s 28463 (Chorus Labs server)Īdvanced extra - Creating an a single-click test program:.

speedtest -s 38177 (Sky Broadband server).

This will run a test to the Chorus Speedtest server and give you a nice little readout of the results, along with a shareable results URL:Īlternate servers you may want to try to also, if you'd like to test to more than one location (or if the first test is showing low): Once you have the program open in the Command Line you want to type in " speedtest -s 28463" and hit enter.

Open the new folder and type “cmd” in the address bar.

This involves a very small download and easy setup on Windows, while the other operating systems require a few extra steps (instructions are provided for these other systems on the Ookla page, however).

This is great to use on older devices, or just as a less resource intensive alternative to in-browser testing, while maintaining the regular Ookla testing methods. Ookla has released a new Command Line Interface version of their classic Speedtest application for testing found here.