make bandwidth test switchable
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#8 make bandwidth test switchable
on behalf of Karl:
For Online-Gamers and others it might be desirable to switch of the bandwidth test temporarily, to prevent interruptions of current activities i.e. by the resource consuming download tests.
Now it's totally open, how to implement this. Most likely in software, since not all Linksys WRT - models own a push button on the front side, but it has to be as portable as possible.
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IMHO the most simple option would be to disable tests for a given time (e. g. next 2 hours) from the web interface. Using the push-button as an additional option sounds like a good idea. Maybe use the coloring of the LED to show that test are currently suspended and will be resumed in x hours. (yellow - x white flashes - yellow) ... but I am getting carried away - just build the most simple thing that could possibly work.
A more sophisticated monitoring of bandwidth usage and intelligent automatic selection of a convenient time frame for tests should be possibly in conjunction with request 1977168 but sounds like an awful lot of work to me.
CAVE: Irregular bandwidth test makes derivation of useful statistics more difficult. In any case it has to be noted whether there is no value for bandwidth in a given test set because there was no connection or because it has been intentionally switched off.