Speedtest download results significanlty lower on HA

[Supermanenvysme]

The problem

Have a fibre service 500/250 Mbps. HA connected via LAN cable. Since 2024.8.0 the download speedtest results are significantly lower. No improvement with 2024.8.1. Download speedtest results prior to 2024.8.0 was above 500Mbps.

Tested on laptop using same LAN cable, exceeding 500Mbps. Changed LAN cable between router and HA device, no improvement.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2024.8.1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2024.7.4

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

speedtestdotnet

Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[MalcolmWade]

Same here; in my case since Sep 10th. Maybe since I upgraded to 2024.09.1

[MalcolmWade]

I wonder if this is more an issue with the underlying speedtest-cli program. Testing manually, I get full speed from a Fedora host on my network, but only 20% speed from my Debian hassio host (and other similar dedicated and standalone Debian hosts like a raspberry pi).

Very strange

[conorlap]

Same issue here!

[BebeMischa]

there is a addon, that fixes a lot of the issues of the core integration. I use it for a long time and it works fine...

https://github.com/MrSuicideParrot/hassio-speedtest-addon

[MalcolmWade]

My issue was a weird one but now fixed. I had re-jigged my network and it seems my new "core" router was somehow throttling speedtest from the VM (debian) running HassIO. Another VM of same build etc had no issues. I got same results using speedtest-cli outside of docker.

I changed out the router for previous and problem went away. Very weird.

[Supermanenvysme]

there is a addon, that fixes a lot of the issues of the core integration. I use it for a long time and it works fine...

https://github.com/MrSuicideParrot/hassio-speedtest-addon

Thanks for this, installed and seen an overall improvement.

[turbo5000c]

Geeze kinda im relieved this is actually an issue with the service. I moved my instance into my k8s cluster on the same day this issue started happening. Iv been trying to figure out if I had a network bottleneck for while.

[RadekLorenc]

Have the same matter on my integration. Speedtest on Home Assistant showing for example 77Mbps on downld and 38Mbps on upload and browser speedtest site showing 517Mbps on dwnld and 520Mbps on upload... both hardware (server with HA and PC computer) are connected to same 1Gbps L2 switch (via 1Gbps LAN cable) and switch is connected straight to GPON bridge via 1Gbps LAN cable.

[steverumsby]

Same here, since mid August. I assume I did an HA upgrade on the afternoon of August 21st (I honestly don't remember now) but since then, as you can see, I've been getting a speed of approx 300Mbps reported via the speedtest integration when everything else is reporting the 500Mbps the connection is rated for, and that HA reported before August 21st. I'm now on HA 2024.10.1 and still getting the same results.