Monitoring you wifi

[Will_D]

As we are awash with IT profs. in the NHC, here's a question:

We have just upgraded the clubs [MRFC] WiFi to a '3' based 4g radio modem/hub.

We would like to monitor the quality of the connection:

As in, we have a Wifi connection, we need to know if it is staying up for long periods or dropping off the connection and then reconnecting.

So we are looking for an Ap to run on a phone that just "listens" to the net connection every say 30 seconds.

It would be like running Speedtest but only doing the ping bit! (not just the Up/Down speed - that is a different monitor)

Any ideas?

(Ok could also be a laptop based program but a phone Ap is simpler)

Cheers

Will

[Frequent Sequence]

you can use the windows command prompt to do this.

Press start > click on search for programs and files > type cmd > type without quotes "ping 8.8.8.8 -t" > press enter.

Boom pining google dns on an infinite loop.

[johnrm]

If you want to know when it drops if it does, create a batch file called test.bat with this...

ping 8.8.8.8 > test.txt
Time > test.txt
Test.bat

This will loop and log the ping and time so you can see when it drops if it does.

(Commands are more-or-less correct)

[johnrm]

Stick this in a file called test.bat

ping 8.8.8.8 >> test.txt
date /t >> test.txt
time /t >> test.txt
test

[Will_D]

Cheers John.

See you tomorrow

[bachus]

Hi Will,

1. Just install old version of the PingPlotter Standard (3.3: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/smothc2cv9xc5e9/AAArfB1gf3YxnnlseoizIEMUa?dl=0 )
2. Start PingPlotter and setup ping to google IP (8.8.8., change Trace Interval to 2.5 seconds; click TRACE:



3. Start second instance of the PingPlotter and setup ping to your router (e.g. 192.168.0.1, or 192.168.254, or 192.168.1.1, or 192.168.168.254 - you can always check in command line by:   ipconfig

If your broadband is down, just check if the PingPlotter is showing no 'anaswer' from your home router. You can always right click to change graph time scale:

[ronnieb]

I quite like http://www.gmwsoftware.co.uk/ bandwidth monitoring application

A lot of nice fields you can configure, you can specify multiple download and upload tests per hour and can customise it pretty heavily.

   Test all, some or just one attribute (DL, UL, Ping, Pkloss, Jitter)
   Record public IP of each test
   Add notes to each test result
   Check for user specified running processes before testing (don't test if *.exe is running)
   Check for current BW usage before testing (don't test if im downloading/uploading)
   Use either network adapter data or internal JDast method to measure speeds
   Send regular results emails
   Send BW "threshold" emails at user specified levels (at x number of successive "bad" tests)
   Send "Live" data to your FTP server for remote access to JDast data
   Load results log into any program that supports .CSV
   Run as a service
   Sleep and hibernate control


Pingplotter as mentioned by Bachus is also very good.