[atlas] How to measure ISP speed/uptime via Atlas Probes

AFAIK Atlas probes cannot be scripted and they were never designed to do speed tests. Folks form RIPE can correct me if I'm wrong. What you look for can be probably fulfilled by other measurement tools like for example SamKnows but I don't know if they sell probes for individuals. Alternatively, you can build your custom software probe on Raspberry Pi 4.0 which has enough computing power and real 1G link to do proper test.

Regards,
Grzegorz

From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.NA>
Organisation: Omadhina Internet Services
Reply to: "el at lisse.NA" <el at lisse.NA>
Date: Tuesday 2022-02-01 at 13:10
To: "ripe-atlas at ripe.net" <ripe-atlas at ripe.net>
Subject: Re: [atlas] How to measure ISP speed/uptime via Atlas Probes

Ray,

thanks.

I meant more or less continuously, but your comment makes sense.


I assume I can look at uptime by downloading JSON from the GUI. Is there a way
of scripting this? Has anyone looked at this using R?

el


On 01/02/2022 13:29, Ray Bellis wrote:


On 01/02/2022 11:22, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
Hi,

I have a few probes in my house(s) and practice and I wonder whether it
is possible to measure the uptime (and speed) of all or some of them on
a more or less continuous basis, and if so how one would go about it.

Total amateur that I am I would appreciate pointers to where I can read
that up, as it surely must have been done before...

I don't think that's practical to measure speed on a continious basis.

The rationale (although I could be wrong) is that as far as I know the only way to reliably measure the throughput of a link is to saturate it.

kind regards,

Ray


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