Your ISP is lying! Monitor your Internet with a Pi

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Do you know how much bandwidth you're _actually_ getting? Find out how to monitor that and more with the open source 'Internet Pi' project I have on GitHub!

Some of the things I mentioned in the video:

Products I used in this video (affiliate links):

#Internet #ISP #RaspberryPi

Contents:

00:00 - Is your ISP honest?
00:45 - The Internet Pi
02:10 - Setting up Internet Pi
03:06 - Pi-hole
03:45 - Monitoring my ISP
05:09 - Starlink monitoring
06:20 - Shelly Plug power monitoring
06:54 - Spectrum is fleecing me!
07:36 - Outtakes
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I once lived in a house where the DSL would go out every day around 5 pm. I created a simple logger using ping to document this for the ISP, because they didn't believe me. When they finally sent a service person at the correct time, we discovered that one of their node boxes next to someone's lawn was being sprayed every day at 5 pm when the lawn sprinklers came on! No wonder it didn't turn up in their diagnostics!!

robertcruz
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This channel is such a goldmine of useful content.

mrsansiverius
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My Grandma has like 900 up and down. With a fiber going all the way to the router. In a distant village. In Ukraine. For ~15 USD.

So you're actually having a first world problem, with an expensive slow Internet.

streamx
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ISPs in the US sell gigabit plans with a 1TB/mo data cap, which you could literally burn through in a few hours 😂

tormaid
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hahahahh as a turkish citizen, I just laughed.
expensive internet: checked
monitored internet: checked
nigthmare of CGNAT: checked
website blockage: checked

niyaziugur
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When your ISP promises "UP TO", and you get 3/4 of that promise, consider yourself lucky!

robertcruz
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This is why they say "Speeds *up to* 1 Gbps". Speed isn't everything either - one time I was getting reasonable speeds but crippling packet loss due to a local fault.

The-Nil-By-Mouth
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"My cable internet connection which is supposed to be 1Gbps, is only about 700Mbps on average..."
Me: **cries in 10Mbps ADSL**

smmb
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Found this channel when looking for Raspberry pi.
Had no Pi back then but still loved to watch this valuable content.
Now, Thanks to God I got a Pi 4 4GB and I love watching to your videos.
Keep up the good work.

heliumlabs
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Thanks Jeff! Xfinity/Comcast have a monopoly in our area. Feels like an abusive relationship. Being able to keep them honest, and know what our devices are doing is super useful. Cheers!

AzaBC
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hearing $150 a month for internet is giving me a heart attack

zRunes
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so I started with 1 Pi as my DAC - now I am at 12 (doing many things - not music only), and now I need a dashboard to my Pis ;-)

zyghom
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Thank you Jeff! I have played around with a friends Raspberry Pi several years ago but didn't have any good use for it until now. Went out and bought my first Pi because of this video :)

natebo
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I would like to see Jeff Gerling setting up his own ISP and show how to be an internet rebell.

PATRIKKALLBACK
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Nice video as usual 🙂
Well, I think that this problem is relatively extended in every country of the world I guess.
Until 20 years ago in Italy there was a single telephone and internet operator but, at the end of this, nothing changed to much because the entire national infrastructure still was owned by that company, so the other "new companies" had to rent part of the network.
To be short, this caused a lot of issues as there were more ISPs on the same infrastructure that wasn't upgraded as needed up during the years mainly for the high costs: here if you want to "put down" a new line/fiber you have to broke up streets as the old pipes are too small and full of old cables.
Anyway, until 5 years ago I was paying 45€ monthly for a 6 Mbps ADSL, then the fiber (FTTC 100/20) finally came and, as I'm not so far to the cabinet I'm not losing too much signal.
I still paying likely 50€ monthly but at least now all it's working as intended.

Ah, phone calls are included 😆
Sorry for the poem and thanks for your work here.

qwertybg
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i just wanna say, i set this up today as a linux noob. your tutorial was so easy to follow, but i did have pi knowledge. i had a big fight with errors, but fixed them by giving 'pi' docker perms [thanks issue tracker!]

this tool is so nice. i have pi hole just to track queries, as i have two ad blockers already. the internet-tracker is super nice. im gonna gather data on this as i love seeing data.
cheers!

progdotgay
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It should be noted that if you have internet speed greater than 300 Mb/s, you MUST use a R Pi 4 as the 3B+ only has a 300 Mb/s NIC. Otherwise great video as always!

gril.gasper
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Im thankful a smaller local ISP started up near me. I'm a few miles outside the ST Louis metro area and I just went from only having satellite to a fiber connection which is faster by 100 fold. Spectrum wanted 20k 6 months before Gateway fiber just ran the line down our street for free if we payed for a subscription. I pay for a gigabit connection. I still see what you get most of the time like 700-900 down depending on the time of day but my uploads are always right around 900+. Still very happy with them, I only spend about 90$ a month on it.

dot_boi
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Sooo considering speedtest-cli uses 1-1.3 GB every test, every 30 minutes would equal to around 50 GB a day or more. * 30, that's 1.5 TB a month, even with my gigabit internet through Comcast that would exceed the 1.2 TB/month quota and I would end up paying for extra bandwidth even if I never used my internet during those 30 days lol.

PlanetEleethal
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Thanks for this. I already have a Pi running PiHole connected to the router, but I've been using a scheduled task on a windows machine to run an hourly speedtest to track my internet speeds. This looks like a much better setup.

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