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I am trying to determine current download speed using ping. I want to calculate download speed for the router and not for any connection or device.
I have Linux and MacOS computers in the network.
daniel turner
Posted 2017-08-24T15:00:40.093
Reputation: 9
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If you want to ping from the router, or basically to do anything from the router, you need to have access to some sort of command interface, be it a web page (192.168.1.1, things like that) or a command line (if you router runs OpenWRT, DDWRT or anything that runs Linux, you should be able to telnet or ssh into it and issue a ping command).
What is the model of the router, and what firmware does it run?
zdimension
Posted 2017-08-24T15:00:40.093
Reputation: 2 523
dlink 2750U and it runs the default firmware – daniel turner – 2017-08-24T15:31:05.957
Try to telnet into the router. If it asks for an username, try admin, and for the password, try the password set for the web interface. – zdimension – 2017-08-24T15:34:36.820
@danielturner - If you are using the default firmware, then it does not,have the ability to ping websites. Which means unless you use OpenWRT/DD-WRT on the device you will be unable to accomplish what you want. As pointed out your ping (latency) to a website has very little effect, on the how amount of bandwidth you will use while connected to an ip address. – Ramhound – 2017-08-24T17:01:16.363
1I just noticed this. You want to determine the download speed using the ping ? That's... not how it works. The two are related, but not that much. A good ping indicates a responsive connection, but you can have a good ping with a not-that-fast connection. You can have 50ms of ping and 500Mbps down with optic fiber. On my VDSL connection I'm getting 10ms and 30Mbps down. If you want a download speed, use a speed test service. – zdimension – 2017-08-24T15:40:04.797
Also, the term "current download speed" is ambiguous. Do you mean the speed at which downloads are actually occurring? Or do you mean the maximum speed at which downloads could occur whether or not anything's being downloaded? – David Schwartz – 2017-08-24T15:57:20.080
By current speed I mean the speed at which downloads are occuring, so when nothing is being downloaded current speed would be 0 Mb/s – daniel turner – 2017-08-24T16:00:38.750