The pkg_postinst warns "net-analyzer/speedtest-cli is often times inaccurate, especially on faster links, due to its use of the older HTTP-based API. In order to have more accurate measurements, please use net-analyzer/speedtest++ instead." net-analyzer/speedtest++ is also wildly inaccurate and often measures speeds over the theoretically limits of the tested network equipment. See https://github.com/taganaka/SpeedTest/issues/44 I don't think this tool should be recommended, at least not with the current wording, as it clearly have its own issues. I think it would be more of a favor to recommend net-misc/iperf:3 to users, if they truly want to test their max bandwidth. As far as I know, iperf3 is the tool of choice for network engineers and there is many public test servers with up to 40Gbit bandwidth.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=60738dc9a1a0a062d3b7d2b2c357e71a2bd4711d commit 60738dc9a1a0a062d3b7d2b2c357e71a2bd4711d Author: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-12-30 22:54:31 +0000 Commit: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-12-30 23:38:39 +0000 net-analyzer/speedtest-cli: drop hint for speedtest++ Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/888591 Signed-off-by: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> net-analyzer/speedtest-cli/speedtest-cli-2.1.3-r1.ebuild | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
