# Internet performance monitoring (new approach)

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**Created:** [3 September 2025 12:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/internet-performance-monitoring-new-approach/98927 "2025-09-03T12:36:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [7 September 2025 13:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/internet-performance-monitoring-new-approach/98927/11 "2025-09-07T13:14:49Z")

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Hello Julian (@TotallyInformation )

You wrote:

> [@TotallyInformation](#):
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> Maybe their endpoint is in North Korea? China? Russia? The USA? None of those countries can be considered "safe" right now for most of us.

You forgot Iran 😀

No, serious

> In But for the paranoid version of me, the biggest reason to avoid this is that we don't know what we are connecting to, where it is, how it is controlled/protected, or what information about us is being retained.

I looked somewhat further and their way is quite well documented.

> In the other post [Help with how to get "speed test" results saved - #11 by TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-with-how-to-get-speed-test-results-saved/96994/11) you wrote:  
> Another thing to note - the raw network speed is only part of the data you need.
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> Network Jitter is also important and I don't believe Speedtest tells you that? Latency is also important of course. And if you have ANY packet loss, you have an issue.

I found that they describe that in their documentation, as well.  
See: [Orb Detail View](https://orb.net/docs/orb-app/orb-detail-view)

I think, it works more or less the same as all the other applications, such as [speedtest.net](http://speedtest.net) from Ookla. Not surprising, as the current CEO of Orb was the previous CEO of Ookla.  
Even node-red-contrib-speedtest is based on [speedtest.net](http://speedtest.net).

But perhaps some articles are interesting to read.

> **[Beyond Speedtest: Orb gives you a holistic look at Internet performance](https://www.pcworld.com/article/2768142/beyond-speedtest-orb-gives-you-a-holistic-look-at-internet-performance.html)**
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> A new multi-platform speed test from the founders of Ookla (SpeedTest.net) gives you more options for both deep data and at-a-glance reports.

or

[https://www.howtogeek.com/ookla-founder-launches-orb-a-smarter-internet-quality-tracker/](https://www.howtogeek.com/ookla-founder-launches-orb-a-smarter-internet-quality-tracker/)

Regards

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