Simple program to monitor cable modem uptime?

[jcarson]

I am switching (maybe) to cable modem and am doing a test. I am lookign for a simple program that can, for example, ping google every 30 seconds, and report whether or not it could ping them. Then log it for analysis.

I just want to make sure my connection is VERY stable for digital phone usage.

Can YOU Reccommend a program to do this?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Well with cable internet and VOIP it will very based on the time of day and how many others in your area are on durring that time frame. See cable internet is fiberoptic up to your neiborhood. Then it hits a splitter box that takes it down to Coaxle cable and splits it across several houses. Since the phone shares the internet bandwidth it suffers if several people are online or calling at the same time. So reliability will very widely.

If you do a search at Download.com you should be able to find a program like that.

 

[jcarson]

Thanks for the primer, but I understand how it works, I just had a problem with electricity getting into my cable lines from a bad TV.

Now that that variable has been removed, I want to make sure that the uptime is more than it was when I HAD the problem.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: jcarson
Thanks for the primer, but I understand how it works, I just had a problem with electricity getting into my cable lines from a bad TV.

Now that that variable has been removed, I want to make sure that the uptime is more than it was when I HAD the problem.

cant you just....run ping in a window and send the output to a text file? thats about as simple as its going to get.

 

[jcarson]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: jcarson
Thanks for the primer, but I understand how it works, I just had a problem with electricity getting into my cable lines from a bad TV.

Now that that variable has been removed, I want to make sure that the uptime is more than it was when I HAD the problem.

cant you just....run ping in a window and send the output to a text file? thats about as simple as its going to get.

Can you help me figure out how to automate this every 30 seconds and send to a text file?

 

[VirtualLarry]

PingPlotter?

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: jcarson

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: jcarson
Thanks for the primer, but I understand how it works, I just had a problem with electricity getting into my cable lines from a bad TV.

Now that that variable has been removed, I want to make sure that the uptime is more than it was when I HAD the problem.

cant you just....run ping in a window and send the output to a text file? thats about as simple as its going to get.

Can you help me figure out how to automate this every 30 seconds and send to a text file?

ill assume windows, since you havent mentioned the OS. after googling, it appears that windows ping doesnt have as many options as id like. specifically, it doesnt have an interval switch.

i poked around and you can try PTLogger
ive never used it, i dont know how well it works or if its safe to use. assume not and scan it thoroughly.

im also not sure that pinging something every 30 seconds is a good way to determine reliability when it comes to determining whether or not the connection is good for VoIP, but, *shrug* i dont know what else to say after that

i guess if you want to try windows ping you can do

ping [address] [-n number_of_pings] > ping_results.txt
[remove the brackets ]
should do it, but it will ping successively up to n pings
or instead of
[-n number] you can do
[-t] until youre tired of it running, as it will go no-stop until told otherwise. end it with ctrl+c

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
PingPlotter?

That's what I'd suggest. It's designed to do this very thing.

 

[jcarson]

Also, thanks xSauronx, thats something new I did not know! Cool.

Downloaded pingplotter and working perfect. THanks!

I was just checking to see if the cable modem was crapping out every 5 minutes or so since they corrected my problem. Thats what was happening, thats why this was important to check. The modem took like 2 minutes to reboot, so this would show me whether or not the modem was crapping out..