From some Dos email programs I am still using I see all email passing by on the screen and see when the download is stuttering. I would like to have something analogue on SuSE. Just seeing my email moving in or out. I am now using
I am running SuSE 8.1 on my PII with an external 56K US Robotics modem. I am aware of the low quality of my telephone connection. It is noisy and I blame it for a lot of slow downloads. But I also know that sometimes my ISP is very busy and that it is using one of the three telephone numbers for gaming. What I want to know if SuSe has a possibility to let me find out what is causing the slowness of my email and other downloads. It would be nice to know in advance if my telephone is noisier as usual and which of the dial up numbers gives the better chance of a unproblematic connection. I can of course wait until one or two o'clock every night to use my modem but I really need some sleep some nights ;-). I am using Gkrellm in order to see if any activity is going on on my modem during the connection. Kinternet is for me also an indication that the connection is working. Are there other possibilities to keep an eye on what is going on during a session with my isp? postfix and fetchmail but they work somewhere in the background and I have no chance of seeing what is happening. -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.