Broadband monitoring or logging

[mendhak]

Hello again. I'm on a 20 Mbps cable connection. These past few days, my connection has been dropping intermittently (which is especially annoying when you're in the middle of an instance ). It'll go away for a minute or two and then come back. While I investigate this, I'm wondering if you know of any broadband logging tools which ping various sites at regular intervals to see if the connection is up, and then log it to a file. I'd like to keep this running for a few days to see when it does go down and then talk to my cable company about this.

I've had a look at WNRTool (But it needs me to install PHP and other modules which I'd rather not) and WatchWAN (which doesn't work on Windows 7 or in any of the compatibility modes).

Any other you know of? If not, I'll write my own.

I'm also going to

1) Restart the router/modem
2) Change Speed/Duplex settings from 100mbps back to Auto Negotiate
3) ???
4) Profit.

Any other suggestions, do let me know.

[Bruce Fox]

Hi Mendhak, Happy New Year.

Process Monitor may come in handy. Whilst it's not a Net monitoring tool per se, you can set up the filters to show Net specific processors and their activity in an effort to narrow down your problem.

Also, do you have a second NIC / MODEM to help isolate the (hardware) problem.

[DeanMc]

You could stop playing wow! Seriously though even if you do find one do you think you will have any joy with your cable company. Mine seem to think that connection 80% of the time is acceptable!

[chris128]

I would just do something like this from two separate command prompt windows:
CMD 1
Ping 192.168.0.1 -t

CMD 2
Ping www.somewebsite.com -t

Obviously replace the 192.168.0.1 in the first example with the IP address of your router, then. Now kick them off and leave them both running, get back to playing WoW and eating cats, then when the net goes down check those two command prompt windows and see if either (or both) have stopped returning pings. If both have stopped then its obviously a problem with communication between your PC and your router - if just the ping to the website has stopped then its a problem that your ISP need to sort out (unless its your own router, in which case you might just need to replace/repair the router but I would certainly get the ISP to check your line out first)