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A small project to monitor your home internet speed with a Raspberry Pi and Google Sheets. I don't think this is a novel idea at all but still want to share.


The discrepancy could be due to where the Pi is located as Wifi signal can vary dramatically and different chips handle things better. I thought my ISP was to blame till I tried connecting to the router via Ethernet. I got myself a 5Ghz router as there was a lot of noise on shared channels with neighbors. I went from ~15Mbps to 108Mbps.


My pi is connected to the router directly with an ethernet cable. The port is rated for 100Mbps as far as I can tell.


Little projects like these make me happy so keep it up - thank you!


Love it




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