[Feature Request] server blacklist

[Byter09]

I'm very happy with the tool so far and it helps me track when my ISP has problems and I can use it to leverage cost reduction with verifiable proof. That said, I sometimes have weird spikes in my graph and I manually went through all the tests and it turns out that some servers just don't seem to have the capacity in terms of bandwidth that I do, hence I get spikes indicating a 30% reduction in speed at random times.

My current solution was to just take a look at all tests and write down the good servers and use it in the whitelist. I have 4 servers in there, but this now makes me more reliable on those four servers operating at best performance at all times.

I'm proposing a black list in which I can enter server IDs of servers I do not want to use. This way I can keep the white list empty, wait for tests to come in and gradually remove the ones that cause spikes in the graph.

I hope this is possible to do in an easy manner, given that I know speedtest.net (CLI) only has a server parameter, but not an exclusion one.

Happy Holidays :)

[the-jeffski]

I second this request. Have just realised all the spikes I see are caused by it picking the same duff server . I see the CLI lets you specify --exclude EXCLUDE which is a server to ignore. A simple list of these or an option in the UI to blacklist the server would be ideal.

[cutzenfriend]

I also have this request. There is one server which gives me massive speed drops.

[WebBuddha]

+1

[GeHoGo]

+1

[hoccontrol]

+1 From me aswell! Same scenario as the others here!

[spencerandhill]

+1 Got the same issue with one server here.

[spcqike]

+1

edit
Out of curiosity. Is it the same server for everyone?
i have problems with speedtest.sewan-group.de

[a3rosol]

+1

edit Out of curiosity. Is it the same server for everyone? i have problems with speedtest.sewan-group.de

That one seems oddly familiar.
But seconding the request

[the-jeffski]

I've been looking at this a bit more and I see that the Ookla CLI doesn't actually support exclusions. So I see why this might not be possible now. I've written a shell script to run the cli and just added a skip loop to ignore the result if its a known bad server. Not ideal but stops me panicking the speed has dropped.

[Byter09]

@the-jeffski

I've been looking at this a bit more and I see that the Ookla CLI doesn't actually support exclusions.

Locally I have the following:

speedtest-cli 2.1.3
Python 3.10.2 (main, Jan 15 2022, 19:56:27) [GCC 11.1.0]

Haven't checked the docker image yet, but my version has a parameter called

--exclude EXCLUDE     Exclude a server from selection. Can be supplied multiple times

So.. looks like its fairly trivial to add.

EDIT:
Okay looking at the version in this project, I get

Speedtest by Ookla 1.0.0.2 (5ae238b) Linux/x86_64-linux-musl 5.15.18-1-MANJARO x86_64

The official command line client for testing the speed and performance
of your internet connection.

And I'm a bit confused. Is the speedtest-cli I have available on arch not the version being used in this speedtest tracker?

[the-jeffski]

@Byter09 That's right - the in the project is the official one from OOkla. The other CLI is the legacy one that tests over HTTP rather than web sockets. I find the older CLI maxes out around 600MB/s on my 1GB line whereas the official one handles the full speed.

[Byter09]

Well, another way to do this that I can think of then, would be to use the command to get a list of all servers, exclude the ones that the user doesn't want, and then explicitly use one from that remaining list. Is that possible?

[Byter09]

This is getting ridiculous at this point :D

[the-jeffski]

Your are not alone:

Agree, your approach sounds the only option. I've written a shell script now to run the CLI and do exactly that.

[Byter09]

Can you maybe make a merge request or so that triggers a new docker image being built with that in it? :D

[the-jeffski]

Ah sorry, wasn't maybe clear - I've done this as a separate test as I run home assistant so push the data there to be displayed now. I looked at the code but couldn't understand it enough to mod.

[Byter09]

Oh I see. Haha. Alright :D