Automated internet speed check (using external FTP)

Hi,

I wanted to check the internet speed every week to be sure that we don't have any reduction from what the ISP should give us.

Asked the ISP for a FTP location and wrote a script that gives me a log each week with a download/upload speed.

The script has 2 files:
1. the FTP script
2. the CMD file

Instructions:
- name the ftp script transfer.txt
- replace the [] in transfer.txt with your info
- create a file for transfer and save it as c:\temp\TestFile.dat. (I used Lan Speed Test)
- You can edit the script to fit your environment

CMD file:
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echo off

rem *** create a unique log file by date ***
Set MONTH=%DATE:~4,2%
Set DAY=%DATE:~7,2%
Set YEAR=%DATE:~10,4%
set output=%YEAR%-%MONTH%-%DAY%.txt

echo The test was performed on the %DATE% at %TIME% > %output%
echo. >> %output%

rem *** run the test ***
ftp -s:Transfer.txt > ftp_output.txt

rem *** extract the important lines from the log ***
for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7 delims= " %%A in (ftp_output.txt) do (
if "%%A"=="ftp:" (echo %%A %%D %%G >> %output%)
)
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after you have the file you can mail it or just archive it.

Transfer.txt (replace the [] with your info):
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open [your.ftp.server]
[Username]
[password]
put c:\temp\TestFile.dat TestFile.dat
get TestFile.dat c:\temp\TestFile.dat
quit
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the log file would look like this:
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The test was performed on the Tue 07/06/2010 at 11:30:10.78

ftp: received 2780.83Kbytes/sec.

ftp: sent 1874.44Kbytes/sec.
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Bye...