I’m new to using the GL-iNet devices and so far just on a travel router but LOVE IT! Looking at switching from my Google Wifi to a mesh system from GL-iNet.
One thing I’m trying to figure out is whether there’s a way to perform a speed test from the Router? Is there a plugin that supports this I could use?
Hi,
Depending on the router and how much free space you have in your router, you should be able to install speedtest-cli.
On the gui plugins look for installing python3 and python3-pip.
Then go on the terminal and do:
ssh root@192.168.8.1 and do the following commands:
pip3 install speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli --no-pre-allocate
It works on GL-AR750S and after installation you should have around 80MB free.
You have also a kind of speed measure on the GUI for the clients but I guess this is what you are looking for.
Regards.
Victor
You can also avoid installing python3 and pip by downloading the Ookla’s speedtest CLI: Speedtest CLI: Internet speed test for the command line
I downloaded their arm binary, untarred it locally, and then scp’d it to the router:
$ scp <pathToTarball>/ookla-speedtest-1.0.0-arm-linux/speedtest root@192.168.8.1:~
From there:
$ ssh root@192.168.8.1
$ ./speedtest
Turns out I’m somehow losing 90% of my throughput on wifi 
@teeohco can this be done on the Opal model? trying to get a on-router test method… would love a gui version but I’ll take a CLI
If so, where do I go to get the file?
I was looking at this earlier ? packages/net/speedtest-netperf at master · openwrt/packages · GitHub
scroll down to linux and there is armel and armhf for you to choose
I tried both options…
Both give parse errors…
Collected errors:
* opkg_conf_parse_file: /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf:4: Ignoring invalid line: `https://install.speedtest.net/app/cli/ookla-speedtest-1.1.1-linux-armel.tgz'
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package https://install.speedtest.net/app/cli/ookla-speedtest-1.1.1-linux-armhf.tgz.
This is a package, not a repository.
You can download a package and unpack it. Depending on the package you should be able to execute/install the skript/binary/program/whatever.
You can add a repository to your customfeeds.conf, so opkg can load it and resolve dependencies automatic …
In this case you won’t need a repository, because ‘speedtest-cli’ from ookla does not have dependencies, it is a static linked executable file.
I doubt ‘both’ solutions are providing the same error, except you’re set two downloadable files in the .conf. What is ‘the other error’?
Ah, okay. The second is the second line … Nearly the same. It won’t be installed via opkg, you’ll need to unpack and execute it by yourself.
Download, open and extract the .TGZ file into a folder. There will be a speedtest.md file that is like a README to explain how to use the utility and all its options.
I do not work for and I do not have formal association with GL.iNet
My suggest is that don’t do speedtest on the router.
The router has limited resource (CPU and RAM) and doing speed test on the router will generate a very low number.
I did extract the files into the router. I can’t get any command tag to work with speedtest command. not even help works!
My delima is I need to be able to do it remotely. as I don’t have a pc on the router to remote into in order to do one! It only will be 4G access for right now anyway, and I’m sure the router will show at least some connection stats.
It is very hard to guess what are you doing.
From your screenshot we can see there is a directory /speedtest/ in the directory /mnt/ … But why? Did you created it with mkdir -p /mnt/speedtest?
Since the command ls is showing nothing, there is no binary to execute … It don’t look like you’ve extracted the downloaded file. I can’t say, from the given information, if you have downloaded the file or extracted it…
And please give any command you are using, it is a lot more easy to understand.
ookla-speedtest-1.1.1-linux-armel.tgz was the file I downloaded days ago…
I extracted the files to the computer. below is ss of it. I deleted the original transfer out and I put it in the root directory this time.
root@GL-SFT1200:/# cd root
root@GL-SFT1200:~# ls
speedtest surfshark-wireguard
root@GL-SFT1200:~# cd speedtest
root@GL-SFT1200:~/speedtest# ls
speedtest speedtest.5 speedtest.md
root@GL-SFT1200:~/speedtest# speedtest
-ash: speedtest: not found
root@GL-SFT1200:~/speedtest#
Same error messages as before.
The only additional plugins I’ve added since turning it on was upnp.
Looks better, now.
Please try ./ before the command.
./speedtest
I have no access to my Beryl, right now. Else I would have test ist myself, before recommending.
Explaination:
If you type any command in a linux shell, the filename will be searched in the directories, mentioned in the $PATH variable …
echo $PATH should give something like:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
but as /root/ is not in $PATH, the command cannot be found. So you’ll tell the shell with ./ ‘execute this file here, from this path.’
And in addition the root directory is /. The path /root will be called ‘home directory of the root user’. A little unlucky, that the path root and the user root is the same word, but isn’t the same meaning.
root@GL-SFT1200:~/speedtest# ./speedtest
./speedtest: line 1: syntax error: unexpected word (expecting ")")
root@GL-SFT1200:~/speedtest#
I’m out.
I have absolutely no idea what happening. I would expect this message while loading a shellscript, but not from a binary.
When you open the file in an editor on your computer, it should be some cont of jibberisch (unreadable) lines. Maybe it has the wrong line terminator, but this depends on the extracting process.
I only use winrar to extract files… never anything else… never had issues before on running something on my ubuntu systems.
If you download the ookla-speedtest-1.1.1-linux-armel.tgz file directly into a folder on the router, then you extract and run the program there:
tar -zxvf ookla-speedtest-1.1.1-linux-armel.tgz
If you download the file and extract it on Windows, then copy the files to the router, then you have to set the Unix Execute permission to run the program:
chmod +x ./speedtest
./speedtest -h
I’m still having the same error
The Opal GL-SFT1200 has a Siflower SF19A28 MIPS processor. The program is for ARM processors and may not work on MIPS.
