Tool or utility for automatically checking internet speeds

Question

My workplace is deciding whether to switch ISPs, so I have been tasked with checking our internet connection speeds twice a day (once at 2pm, once at 2am).

I am wondering if there was a utility that I could download and run that would do this automatically in the background over the next couple of weeks, and give me a CSV of the results.

Answer 1

There is a command line tool in python, which test via speedtest.net:

https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli

If you are using linux you could write a small bash script and run it with a cron job.