Hi all!

For some time now my internet connection have been unreliable to say the least. I'm paying for a 50/50 connection, but I'm seeing a steady 23/18 on average(mbps). As well as some pretty annoying latency issues... So! I want to monitor this over time, to build a waterproof case for myself.

I want to use speedtest-cli on my Ubuntu server, and by cron make it do a speedtest every 12 hours. After asking internet for advice I ended wanting to do this with Perl.

This is my script so far...
open speedtest,"speedtest-cli --simple |" or die "Cannot open speedtes
+t";
$datestring = localtime();
while (<speedtest>) {
    if (/Download\:[0-9\.]*)/)
    {
        $speed=$1;
        print "$datestring : Download $speed +n";
    }
    elsif (/Upload\:[0-9\.]*)/)
    {
        $speed=$1;
        print "$datestring : Upload $speed +n";
    }
}

[download]

...which works fine except for the fact that it doesn't print the results, rather just time/date and "Download"/"Upload".

It works like a charm on AIX, but not on Ubuntu. Why?

Also; I want to store this in one .txt file, and I'm thinking that I'll do that in my crontab. Would it store each result in a new line in that file or overwrite it? Any ideas on how to do this?

Thank you for any and all help regarding this :-) PS: I can verify that the script starts speedtest-cli, and that it prints out time/date.

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