Checking Secondary Internet Speed Connection

[KarlAltair]

It's as what the title says. I want to know if there is an option to check my secondary internet speed connection (like run Ookla Speedtest on it) without disconnecting my first one. 

[Palden]

Perhaps you should be a little more specific, do you have 2 individual services running to your house? Or is it like a bonded DSL service where you have 2 lines to your house that provide the same internet?

[KarlAltair]

Thanks for the reply. I really don't know what you guys need to help me, so I haven't shared much. 

 

Anyway, I have two individual ISP's, going into each of their own modems, then the two modems are attached on another router. Usually to check the second ISP's speed, I just shutdown the power of the first ISP.

 

But I wanna know if there is a way to check the secondary ISP without shutting down the first one. Cause if I shut down the first ISP, there's a bit of a downtime, and I am more or less hosting something over the net, which proves difficult to the client if I do it every time. 

[Palden]

You could just hook a computer directly to the modem of the second ISP and run a speedtest, unless you have static lan IPs in your config, then you just have to set your computer's IPv4 address to that static lan address

[Palden]

Basically, unplug the second ISP's ethernet cable that runs between their modem and your router, and plug it straight into a computer and run the speedtest

[KarlAltair]

That is a good idea, but not one that I can apply on my end. They are set up on a server rack, I guess I can bring in a laptop for a last resort. 

 

But what I really want is a software way where I can, I don't know probably run the software directly on the server attached to it. Are you familiar with PfSense? 

 

Now that I think about it, is there a way to check specific ports using PfSense? 

[Palden]

Well, you could always try logging into your router and just disabling whatever port the primary is plugged into and running a speedtest, then re-enable it after you're through. I'm assuming you're using a buisness class router that should have that feature in it.

 

And I'm not familiar with PFsense, is that what you're using as a router?

[Teddy07]

Can´t you just switch priority between internet1 und internet2?

[KarlAltair]

I think doing that would slow down the total bandwidth of the network (or cripple it) since it is set up that if ISP A goes down B would take care of it, but B is more of the less known ISP, so it's more of "at least it's running" kind of set up for B. 

 

On PfSense yes and no. We are running on a MikroTik router as a main, and PfSense is more of firewall/router together with another software called Fail2ban running on another machine. Anyway it's a really a simple setup. 

 

I just want to know of there is a software way (or remote way) to check secondary ISP without disconnecting primary and causing down time. Really thank you (and other people) for the inputs appreciate it. 

[KarlAltair]

5 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

Can´t you just switch priority between internet1 und internet2?

I can do that. But as I mentioned not really applicable to my current situation.