Network Access Monitor SW

[tombrown]

I am looking for some software that I can leave running on my home PC over a period of time to monitor my broadband connection. I am with IFA Telecom (see Irish ISP forum for details just posted) and the service is poor. I often lose connectivity all together and when I am connected the speed can be well below the 1Mbps I am promised.

I would like to collect some data over a period of time that shows how often I have no connection (% of time) and when available the quality of that conneciton (ideally in terms of speed).

As an example I just manually ran a ping to the ISPs DNS server 20 times (i.e. 80 actual pings at 4 packets per instance) in an hour and got the following results:

Succes rate of ping -- 41%
Ratio of pings that took >500mS (succesful only) -- 76%
Ratio of pings > 1 second -- 39%

This sort of data collected over a few days woudl be useful, even better would be data that shows bandwidths available over that time

Anyone know of anything (ideally freeware ) that I can use?

[howfast]

Hi tombrown

You could try pingplotter. There is a freeware version but you can also get a fully working 30 day trial on the full version.

Don't forget to look up their knowledge base as well [do a search for packet loss], you may find some useful info to help interpret any results and or pinpoint where the problem lies.

Howfast

[tombrown]

Thank you howfast - I have downloaded this & will try it out over the next day

[blacknight]

There are a few solutions mentioned on here:
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