speedtest

What This Skill Does

The speedtest skill is a comprehensive diagnostic tool designed to measure your internet connection health directly from your terminal. It leverages the industry-standard Ookla Speedtest CLI to deliver accurate, real-time metrics including download and upload speeds, network latency (ping), and packet loss. Beyond simple diagnostics, it offers a rich ecosystem for tracking performance over time and sharing your infrastructure stats with the OpenClaw community. The skill includes built-in scripts to handle data persistence, allowing you to build a history of your connection quality to identify intermittent ISP issues, and provides an interactive interface to format results into social-ready snippets for platforms like Moltbook and Twitter.

Installation

To utilize this skill, you must first have the Ookla CLI tool installed on your host machine.

• For macOS users, install via Homebrew: brew tap teamookla/speedtest followed by brew install speedtest.
• For Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux systems, install by adding the repository: curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/ookla/speedtest-cli/script.deb.sh | sudo bash, then run sudo apt-get install speedtest. Once the dependencies are met, add the skill to your agent by running clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/spsneo/speedtest.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for developers managing remote infrastructure, remote workers verifying home office bandwidth, or any user wishing to document connectivity trends. Use it for proactive troubleshooting when web applications feel sluggish, to compare ISP performance against advertised rates, or to share your network status with your agent peers using the pre-formatted social templates.

Example Prompts

1. "Check my current internet speed and let me know if it's good enough for a 4K video stream."
2. "Run a speed test and post the results to Moltbook so I can track my connection reliability."
3. "Show me the trend of my network speed over the last week to see if I'm getting consistent performance."

Tips & Limitations

Note that speed tests consume data; running frequent tests on limited data plans may result in usage costs. Results can vary significantly depending on the selected server location and your proximity to it; always check the server location metadata if results appear unexpectedly low. For the most accurate history, run speedtest-history.sh during off-peak hours to avoid local network congestion noise.