Is there a way I can measure internet speed on my DS224+?

[TonyCzar]

Title is self-explanatory.

 

[Rusty]

Command line speedtest-cli can do the trick, or a docker-driven one as well that looks like a full web ui GitHub - alexjustesen/speedtest-tracker: Speedtest Tracker is a self-hosted internet performance tracking application that runs speedtest checks against Ookla's Speedtest service.

 

[TonyCzar]

Thanks. Sorry to be such a newb, but how would I run that command line instruction?

 

[TonyCzar]

Thanks. Sorry to be such a newb, but how would I run that command line instruction?

Re-posting.

 

[Rusty]

Apologies for missing the post, I have a work weekend and Friday was a prep day for a new product rollout, so completely missed this message.

Ok, so the command line will be a bit tricky, as you need to install it 1st in order to run it. DSM does not allow for such operations unless you side load what you need.

This on the other hand could have security and configuration issue down the road, especially when a new DSM update arrives, as well as the security advisor app will start screaming.

It would be best to sandbox this inside a docker container running via the official support package, the Container Manager (inside the package center).

While the Container Manager is a webUI driven environment so you can stay clear of the command line, I would recommend using the CLI for this as it is just a single command line that will get everything up and running including the test, and result.

step 01 - Install Container Manager from the Package Center

step 02 - activate SSH access using the Control Panel > Terminal section

step 03 - use PUTTY (windows), or Terminal app (macOS/Linux) to log in via SSH

step 04 - use the following: ssh yourDSMaccout@yourNASIP inside the app from the previous step ex: ssh [email protected]

step 05 - use your DSM credentials to get access via the command line (password will not be visible so just type it and hit return)

step 06 - once logged in, use sudo -i to elevate your credentials to root

step 07 - once logged as root (indicated by the change of the prompt) execute the following: docker run --rm -it gists/speedtest-cli

step 08 - previous command will run the speedtest in the command line and remove the container once completed (hence the --rm switch). Before that it will download the gists/speedtest-cli image that the Docker will use to create a short lived container, run the test, give you the URL of the result and terminate.

You can simply rerun the same command again to repeat the test. This time the image will not download as the NAS already has it, so a fresh container will spring up, rerun the test and again terminate.

Example of the output:

root@K-2SO:~# docker run --rm -it gists/speedtest-cli
Unable to find image 'gists/speedtest-cli:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from gists/speedtest-cli
661ff4d9561e: Pull complete
0f50616fa285: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:da510db875e4f3e507d1166ca6cdafe79aab6302c10ba23d29fa0ade12ecf50c
Status: Downloaded newer image for gists/speedtest-cli:latest

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   Speedtest by Ookla

      Server: A1 Slovenija, d.d. - Ljubljana (id: 54112)
         ISP: Fenice Telekom Grupa d.o.o.
Idle Latency:     3.35 ms   (jitter: 0.10ms, low: 3.30ms, high: 3.47ms)
    Download:   910.73 Mbps (data used: 411.2 MB)                                                   
                  5.47 ms   (jitter: 0.60ms, low: 4.19ms, high: 8.21ms)
      Upload:   845.15 Mbps (data used: 582.9 MB)                                                   
                  3.79 ms   (jitter: 4.31ms, low: 3.22ms, high: 212.57ms)
 Packet Loss: Not available.
  Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/068963e0-d724-4a05-a03a-a75256a74662