[atlas] How to measure ISP speed/uptime via Atlas Probes

Ray,

thanks.

I meant more or less continuously, but your comment makes sense.


I assume I can look at uptime by downloading JSON from the GUI. Is there a way
of scripting this? Has anyone looked at this using R?

el


On 01/02/2022 13:29, Ray Bellis wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/02/2022 11:22, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a few probes in my house(s) and practice and I wonder whether it
>> is possible to measure the uptime (and speed) of all or some of them on
>> a more or less continuous basis, and if so how one would go about it.
>>
>> Total amateur that I am I would appreciate pointers to where I can read
>> that up, as it surely must have been done before...
> 
> I don't think that's practical to measure speed on a continious basis.
> 
> The rationale (although I could be wrong) is that as far as I know the only way to reliably measure the throughput of a link is to saturate it.
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> Ray
> 

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