[smokeping-users] New probe speedtest

[Adrian Popa]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to share with you a new probe I've been working on - 
integrating speedtest-cli project to work with smokeping. The idea was 
that we needed to run some tests to get the customer's "experience" when 
using speedtest.net with different test servers. We developed this 
probe, and measure the upload/download rate the client's connection 
supports.

Plugin description and examples are here:

https://github.com/mad-ady/smokeping-speedtest

There is a bit of a deviation from standard plugins - meaning it ignores 
the pings variable and does only one test. This was done in order to 
prevent the IP getting banned for too agressive behavior by the 
speedtest.net servers. It can be reactivated - I'm open to ideas.

Here's a sample graph from a slave probe (1 hour polling):

http://imgur.com/cTJdHCS

@tobi: if you feel this plugin could be useful and should be included in 
the main release, let me know and I'll see how I can merge it...

Feedback welcome,

Regards,
Adrian