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Using a 4G Router (HUAWEI B315) with a domain name whitelist to prevent excessive data usage.

It will only allow our custom API through.
However when testing the router at new venues it would be great to run speed tests without removing the domain name whitelist everytime.

So this is an example of the current whitelisted domains

api.example.com
speedtest.net

Running a speed test fails, it simply doesn't connect to a server. Is it possible to white-list speedtest.net? to allow the speedtest Android App to complete a test?

If not is there another speed test service which could be white-listed easily?

Andrew Schulman
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likdaboo
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  • Probably not. Speedtest.net connects to a variety of volunteer and ISP-hosted servers near individual users. For example, mine hits `http://speedtest.nyroc.rr.com`. There's no way you could whitelist all of these. – ceejayoz Apr 11 '18 at 16:27

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Yoiu would not be able to achieve this, as ceejayoz mentions speedtest.net connects to a virtually unlimited number of servers.

What you could do is use something like fast.com if you just want to test the download speed (this never leaves the fast.com domain), or get a Digital Ocean droplet somewhere and run your own white-listed speed test software (something like https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest)

Mark Henderson
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