[NBLUG/talk] Monitoring Internet access

[Scrappy Laptop]

Quick and dirty solution, a variation of which I use in sql/sftp scripts: 

Write a short script in your language or shell of choice to append a timestamp to a log/textfile, wget a file of known size somewhere and then throw another timestamp to the log.  Chron it to run hourly.  Should show variations over time.



--- On Thu, 10/1/09, Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Monitoring Internet access
> To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc." <talk at nblug.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 11:42 AM
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM,
> Roger House <rhouse at sonic.net>
> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Nothing on monitoring programs, though I'd be
> interested too.  Some years ago I noticed trouble around
> 8:00, 3:00, and 6:00.  3:00 being when the kids get home
> from school.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jack Smith
> 
> English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English
> follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it
> wants.
> 
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