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Crontab to test bandwidth speed: 4 times a day
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| # Note 1: Necessary to reproduce $PATH so that the boxen location for wget is picked up by the cron daemon. | |
| # Note 2: Pick an appropriate output location - currently this is set to a logging directory in Dropbox | |
| PATH=/opt/boxen/nodenv/shims:/opt/boxen/nodenv/bin:bin:/opt/boxen/rbenv/shims:/opt/boxen/rbenv/bin:/opt/boxen/rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:/opt/boxen/bin:/opt/boxen/homebrew/bin:/opt/boxen/homebrew/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin | |
| 0 8,13,18,23 * * * wget --output-document=/dev/null --report-speed=bits http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip 2>&1 | grep ') -' >> /Users/$USER/Dropbox/Logging/`hostname`-bandwidth.log |
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After rebooting, one of my machines gets good WiFi performance which slowly degrades with time. This seems like a reasonable way to harvest some data to prove how/when this happens.