Slow download speeds on 1gbps plan

[vishalrao]

Personally on windows I like to install and run this free tool called RainMeter which is a permanent floating widget UI on the corner of the screen which shows things like CPU, RAM , network speed usage...

 

[Sushubh]

does it show ip? i can't find a good tool to keep an eye on my ip lol. probably should be available.

need to make this less distracting lol.

 

[vishalrao]

Yes it shows the external public ip... It checks the checkip.amazonaws.com which you can also open in browser to quickly see what is your current public IP

 

[Sushubh]

yeah it's too complicated for what i need it for. couldn't find the code to remove the speed data. also would have needed to find a way for it to refresh the ip at a regular interval lol.

it's just easier to run (Invoke-WebRequest -uri "http://ifconfig.me/ip").Content in powershell lol. i am sure there is an option to run this on loop with delay.

 

[vishalrao]

I don't remember if it refresh IP data at any interval but I just right click on the network UI and click refresh whenever I want.

If you just want to check IP just open the link in browser checkip.amazonaws.com or if using command line in windows or Linux you can simply run "curl checkip.amazonaws.com" to get the IP.

 

[Sushubh]

hehe. this works on terminal tbh.

while true; do date && wget http://ipinfo.io/ip -qO - && echo; sleep 10; done

 

[vishalrao]

Of course there are other web addresses which return the same info but I just remember the Amazon one out of habit.

 

[Sushubh]

usually i find out excitel is down and airtel is being used when i hit a blocked website lol. which happens within minutes of excitel going down tbh lol.

 

[vishalrao]

I have installed and configured LibreNMS in docker which my TP-Link er605 sends the log entries and LibreNMS parses and sends email and telegram alerts whenever any of my links goes down or comes back up.

 

[iYuvrajMehta]

Get Jio Fiber
Airtel is bad, been using since may 16,2023. Very inconsistent unlike jio fiber (used for 1.5 year).
I used the 100mbps plan on jio fiber and it was stable and consistent, the download speeds won't drop at all be it any website except torrents, like it constantly gave 12.5mbps on downloads and 3mbps on uploads. On my storage server, airtel is giving 1-3mbps download speeds over a 200mbps plan, only runs at full potention over google microsoft or any other major and popular website or app store/playstore.