This Node application automatically measures internet speed information at regular intervals (using the speedtest-net node package) and inserts the information into a MongoDB database.
I designed the application to run on my raspberry pi, which can stay up and running 24/7 on my home network.
- Node
- npm
- MongoDB
- Run
npm installto grab required node modules - Edit
config.jsonwith your desired parameters- db/collection names
- frequency of speed measurements
- Start MongoDB
- Run
src/setup/setup.js- This will create a database and collection in Mongo
To start the application, run src/app/main.js.
You will probably want to run this application on a remote device so that you can constantly monitor speeds without having to keep a personal or work machine online constantly. Given this, I recommend that the app be run through ssh using nohup (so that the process does not die when the ssh connection ends). To do that, run ssh user@target "nohup ~/path/to/repo/src/app/main.js > app.out 2> app.err < /dev/null &".
For convenience, I have also included a teardown script that will delete the database. To run the teardown, just execute src/setup/teardown.js.