NBN Speedtest on HFC 50/20 in Hughesdale (4 Aug 2017) Vic 3166

A speedtest of NBN speeds was run across a weekend, every two hours, from Friday 8.00pm to Monday 8.00am. NBN was running in Hughesdale, 3166 Victoria over Telecube HFC 50/20 NBN subscription. The NBN is the Australian National Broadband Network. HFC is the payTV network (a hybrid fibre-coaxial network) and is currently sold at speeds up to 100/40 mbps (download/upload). The test is run on a residential premise with a 50/20 subscription with Telecube.<br>Speedtest is a network service to test an internet connection speed. See html5 version at http://beta.speedtest.net.<br><br>Speedtest recorded from server: 2225 Telstra Melbourne.List of servers available by running: speedtest-cli --list<br>Version:2. Out.csv deletes test data.1. Out.csv includes 12 lines of test data from Monash Uni LAN (speeds 200/100mbps). Now deleted in v2..<br>Recording:- upload (mbps)- download (mbps)- ping (milliseconds)and output to a csv file.<br>Code from: Github to run speedtest under python control. https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli (linked below).<br>Bash script executes speedtest. (Bash file attached here.)Cron controls automated execution of script and write out data to csv file. (out.csv).Further coding docs included in bash file: job.sh<br>Inspired by: https://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&amp;t=52732 <br>Cron: 5 */2 * * * cd ~/Downloads/speed/ &amp;&amp; ./job.shRuns speedtest every two hours at five minutes past the hour.<br>Environment: MacBook Pro 2012 10.12.6 Python 2.7.10 (MacOS)<br>Data graphed (and data available) at plotly: https://plot.ly/~areff20000/46/ (linked below).<br>