1. Instal/update,
2. Run speed-test,
3. See:

speed-test

      Ping ⠹
  Download
    Upload
events.js:141
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'settings' of null
    at gotServers (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:522:20)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:48:16
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:238:7
    at Parser.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:483:18)
    at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
    at Parser.emit (events.js:169:7)
    at Parser.exports.Parser.Parser.parseString (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:493:16)
    at Parser.parseString (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:7:59)
    at exports.parseString (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:534:19)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:236:5

seems like a bug caused by a change in https://github.com/ddsol/speedtest.net . I'd say it's either https://github.com/ddsol/speedtest.net/commit/8f53240a4e561f1dc1bd4f91bc098d3d64f674a9 or https://github.com/ddsol/speedtest.net/commit/dce7e7d93d24ebe0e1a3f48c1cc1fddd7cfc0959

 speed-test
       Ping ⠋ 
   Download
     Upload
✖ Error: No server found, verify your proxy/network
    at gotServers (/usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:634:25)
    at /usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:118:16
    at /usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:317:7
    at Parser.<anonymous> (/usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/parser.js:304:18)
    at Parser.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at Parser.exports.Parser.Parser.parseString (/usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/parser.js:314:16)
    at Parser.parseString (/usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/parser.js:5:59)
    at exports.parseString (/usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/parser.js:369:19)
    at /usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:315:5
    at /usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v10.14.2/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:118:16

Yesterday my internet seemed very slow so I used speed-test to test it. It seemed my internet connection was down entirely and it couldn't reach the speed-test servers.

{ [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND www.speedtest.net www.speedtest.net:80]
  code: 'ENOTFOUND',
  errno: 'ENOTFOUND',
  syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
  hostname: 'www.speedtest.net',
  host: 'www.speedtest.net',
  port: 80 }

So I thought it would be a good idea to show a more user-friendly error if this happens. Feel free to suggest another error message or to not merge at all :).

For download/upload it would be a nicer UX if we dropped the decimal when it's more than 10 mbps. Fractions don't matter after that.

@SamVerschueren Thoughts?

Any reason the test would just spin and stick on the Ping?

Not really sure if it is an issue but it is what I am seeing when I run the test in OSX Terminal.

Would be useful to have a --verbose flag that displays more info, like which server it connects to, etc.

What would you like to have included in the verbose output?

Available info can be found here: https://github.com/ddsol/speedtest.net#data

Web UI is faster to use. I can get ping right after first donwload bytes. I can view a download speed before it will download all files.

In most time I didn’t interesting in upload speed, but anyway in CLI I need to wait this check before get ping and download results.

• Updated readme to include batch example
• The timestamp is only included via json argument and verbose all together, providing ability to monitor the results via some tool

Resolved issue https://github.com/sindresorhus/speed-test/issues/6 by adding the --verbose flag.

I also added extra tests for testing the json outputs. It seems that t does not work inside cp.stdout.on('data', .... Is this in issue in AVA or not? I fixed it by calling kill if the json is not correct which will throw an error which will fail the test.

@sindresorhus I know I have access to the repo, but want your consent on this ;).

In SpeedTest site I can understand average download speed even before test is finished, because it shows current download speed. It is not accurate, but enough in many cases.

Happening on both my Centos7.2 and raspberry pi 2 systems.

/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:95
NT 6.3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.' + Math.trunc(Math
                                                                    ^
TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'trunc'
    at getHttp (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:95:158)
    at getXML (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:234:3)
    at speedTest (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:492:3)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/cli.js:83:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)

I have internet, and thus I get "no server found" error

joao@delft:~$ sudo npm install --global speed-test
[sudo] senha para joao: 

added 122 packages, and audited 123 packages in 3s

48 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities
npm notice 
npm notice New major version of npm available! 8.19.2 -> 9.1.2
npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v9.1.2
npm notice Run npm install -g [email protected] to update!
npm notice 
joao@delft:~$ speed-test

      Ping ⠏ 
  Download   
    Upload   
✖ Error: No server found, verify your proxy/network
    at gotServers (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:649:25)
    at /usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:119:16
    at /usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:330:7
    at Parser.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/parser.js:304:18)
    at Parser.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at SAXParser.onclosetag (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/parser.js:262:26)
    at emit (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/sax/lib/sax.js:624:35)
    at emitNode (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/sax/lib/sax.js:629:5)
    at closeTag (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/sax/lib/sax.js:889:7)
    at SAXParser.write (/usr/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/sax/lib/sax.js:1436:13)
joao@delft:~$ ping google.com
PING google.com(ams16s32-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400e:80c::200e)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ams16s32-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400e:80c::200e): icmp_seq=1 ttl=119 time=3.57 ms
64 bytes from ams16s32-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400e:80c::200e): icmp_seq=2 ttl=119 time=3.36 ms
64 bytes from ams16s32-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400e:80c::200e): icmp_seq=3 ttl=119 time=3.72 ms
64 bytes from ams16s32-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400e:80c::200e): icmp_seq=4 ttl=119 time=3.82 ms
64 bytes from ams16s32-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400e:80c::200e): icmp_seq=5 ttl=119 time=4.08 ms
64 bytes from ams16s32-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400e:80c::200e): icmp_seq=6 ttl=119 time=3.69 ms
64 bytes from ams16s32-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400e:80c::200e): icmp_seq=7 ttl=119 time=3.61 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.361/3.691/4.075/0.205 ms

It would be lovely if you introduce a timestamp in the JSON output, so that if I probe with this app every few minutes I would know the probe time.

For the moment I need to transform the JSON output each time the app completes, or if we can have append custom object application arguments with data generated from somewhere else. E.g: speed-test -v -j -d '{"ts": "fdffd", "hostname": "pc1"}'

that way you don't have to change a lot, just at the end of the result generation to merge the arguments object.

Thanks.

Any comment on the differences?

$ speed-test 
      Ping  6 ms
  Download  12.8 Mbps
    Upload  8371.5 Mbps
$

www.speedtest.net/
      Ping  60 ms
  Download  24 Mbps
    Upload  26 Mbps