If you are a Mac user, I’m sure you heard about Alfred, it’s, as far as I know the best launcher. Alfred will speed up your work and make your mouse kind of useless.
Alfred has also a great feature, the extensions. You first need to buy a powerpack and then you can start to write them.
I wrote an extension that gets your connection speed and displays it using Growl.
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To install it, just double-click on the file, and to run it type in Alfred:
speed
And that’s it.
Enjoy.
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Percy
13 November 2011 at 0 h 53 min (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Could this Alfred extension be modified to choose the closest Speed Test server by ping or IP address?
Ben
13 November 2011 at 14 h 27 min (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Yes it can be done, I will look up for this feature as soon as I get some time :-)
Ben.
Greg
9 December 2011 at 1 h 26 min (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Hi,
I really love this extension, but I was curious: is there a way that I con modify this extension to give me the speed results in, say, megabytes per second, instead of kilobits per second? If so, how can I do that?
Thank you very much!
Ben
9 December 2011 at 14 h 40 min (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I wrote 2 other extensions that displays the speed in Mbytes and in Mbits.
Enjoy!
Mark F
27 May 2012 at 12 h 07 min (UTC 2) Link to this comment
The extension unfortunately did not work for me, perhaps because I am using Growl 1.3.3?
Klakinoumi
10 October 2012 at 14 h 53 min (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Hi Ben.
Awesome job on this extension. I have noticed however that the speed is never above 17 Mb. Is it because the script is partially running on your server ?
I often deal with 100 Mb/s connexion, and the results are not accurate in that case.
Is there a workaround ?
Anyway thanks for your work. :)
Ben
24 October 2012 at 1 h 28 min (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I think my server cannot handle a 100mbit/s connection. I’ve tried the script only with my home connection (20 mbps). I’ll try it from my university where speed is also 100mbps.
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