What's a good way to track how often your cable service goes down.

[Moonbeam]

Sometimes it seems that ATTBI goes down for minutes or seconds on a regular basis, but I can never tell if it's my stuff that crashed somehow, or if the cable actually disconnected. I remember hearing there are ways to track your connectivity. Know how?

 

[Atrail]

I wanna know too!
Running XP...

 

[vi edit]

What operating system are you using Moonbeam?

 

[WyteWatt]

Moonbeam the same thing happens to me on my cox.net cable modem isp. I wonder if this is a internet issue or a isp issue. Hmm.

 

[Yossarian]

Go to www.dslreports.com, they have all kinds of tools to track your connectivity. You can then print them out and beat your cable company over the head when they say the problem's on your end.

 

[Anubis]

happens to me on RR cable in upstate NY. last night it dies for a good 30min round 2-230 am

 

[Soybomb]

ffirst week's free

 

[Moonbeam]

vi, I got 98 on my posting machine and xp on another one. I would like to be able to monitor from both.

 

[Moonbeam]

Where did vi_edit go?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Where did vi_edit go?

mexico i think. or maybe thats later

 

[DaFinn]

What's a good way to track how often your cable service goes down.

Down on who?

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: DaFinn

What's a good way to track how often your cable service goes down.

Down on who?

lol

 

[dman]

There's a program called ping plotter that'll ping a website and plot the ms time's between hops and some other stuff for any period of time you specify. I believe it is shareware. Not like you'll accomplish much by tracking it, the cable co's generally don't care. At best you'll get a service credit for the time you are down.

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: Soybomb
ffirst week's free

I'll second that. Lots of good schtuff at dslreports.com

 

[vi edit]

I'm trying to find a way to set up a service in XP or Win2k that monitors the connection and then sends a report to event viewer when it goes down.

Still looking though...

 

[RossMAN]

So is ATTBI cable internet not that reliable?

 

[VBboy]

Get someone (not me, I'm busy 🙂) to write a simple program to ping a certain external IP address and to request a page from some server. Depending on the outcome, your Cable connection would be considered to be working or not working. The program would log the time of the connection-sucks, then it would log the time of connection-works. About 10 minutes to do in Visual Basic.

 

[Jhill]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
So is ATTBI cable internet not that reliable?

For me, It always goes down between 15 minutes and 2 hours at a time. About once or twice a week. Then when you call them they say

"We'll can have a tech come out next Friday"

And I'll say

"I'm out, my Tv is out and 2 of my neighbors are out so it's not me. "


Then they say

"We can have a tech come out next Friday"

Then I hang up.

I don't think it's this bad everywhere though.

 

[PistachioByAzul]

Release and renew your DNS when it goes down. Should fix it.