[NBLUG/talk] Monitoring Internet access

Bob Blick bobblick at ftml.net
Thu Oct 1 14:30:21 PDT 2009


On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:31:04 -0700, "Roger House" <rhouse at sonic.net>
said:
> My Comcast service out in the country seems to have gotten really 
> lousy.  I'm not home during the days, but my wife says that for the last 
> 10 days she can't really do anything on the Internet from about 8:00am 
> to 3:30pm or so.  I have also noted some periods of seemingly no access 
> on weekends.  I would like to gather some hard facts about what's going 
> on.  Can anyone recommend a program which periodically checks for an 
> Internet connection and gathers info on upload and download times.

Sort of a joke, but testing the quality of the connection might violate
Comcast's terms of service :)

Cheerful regards, 

Bob

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