[opensuse] underperforming internet connection
I am connected with the internet with the only internet provider in my area. This is ADSL with a download speed of max. 1.5 Mbps and and upload speed of about 0,40 Mbps. I could live with these speeds if the connection would be reliable. If it rains or if there are strong winds, the connection goes dead and it will take some time to reconnect (several minutes). The company which owns the telephone lines is not impressed by my connection problems and does not react to complaints. They tell me that next year or so we may get our connection over glass-fiber cables. In order to make some weight with my complaints and getting at least a reliable connection I am looking for a program which logs at least the times that I loose connection. Speed is of no interest for the moment. Somebody know of a program doing just that? -- Linux User 183145 using KDE4 and LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 20141221 (i586) Kernel: 3.16.6-2-default KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3 13:09pm up 4:44, 3 users, load average: 0.72, 0.55, 0.56 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Constant Brouerius van Nidek schrieb am 23.12.2014 um 11:40:
I am connected with the internet with the only internet provider in my area. This is ADSL with a download speed of max. 1.5 Mbps and and upload speed of about 0,40 Mbps.
I could live with these speeds if the connection would be reliable. If it rains or if there are strong winds, the connection goes dead and it will take some time to reconnect (several minutes).
The company which owns the telephone lines is not impressed by my connection problems and does not react to complaints. They tell me that next year or so we may get our connection over glass-fiber cables.
In order to make some weight with my complaints and getting at least a reliable connection I am looking for a program which logs at least the times that I loose connection. Speed is of no interest for the moment. Somebody know of a program doing just that?schedule a ping
Ping :) Schedule a ping -c1 -D ip.ad.dr.ess once per minute and redirect the output to a log file. Maybe you want to shorten the output a bit before logging it... Or try the check_ping / check_icmp monitoring plugins. We use this priciple in Nagios to show up-/downtimes of several remote systems connected via UMTS. HTH, Werner - -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/23/2014 05:40 AM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
In order to make some weight with my complaints and getting at least a reliable connection I am looking for a program which logs at least the times that I loose connection. Speed is of no interest for the moment. Somebody know of a program doing just that?
Back when I had an intermittent problem, I wrote a script that pinged the ISP's router at interval and recorded the times it failed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2014-12-23 11:40, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
In order to make some weight with my complaints and getting at least a reliable connection I am looking for a program which logs at least the times that I loose connection. Speed is of no interest for the moment. Somebody know of a program doing just that?
I configured my router to send its log messages to my computer. This logs registers when the connection goes down and up. For many years, I had your problem, although it usually took less than a minute to reconnect. Then, one day, somebody came and worked on the connection box, probably adding a neighbour. Later I noticed that my phone was completely down, so I complained. Somebody came, I pointed to the box, he went there, he connected me back, I tested, I complained of noise, and this chap decided to switch me to a spare copper pair, an operation that needs a reconnect in the box and in the exchange some kilometers away. Since then I have not experimented adsl drops. My point is that you have to complain of noise in the voice phone line... Otherwise, I'm also limited to 1 Mbit (the contract says "up to 8"), and considering switching to fiber (same company). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
On 12/23/2014 07:53 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Otherwise, I'm also limited to 1 Mbit (the contract says "up to 8"), and considering switching to fiber (same company).
In my area, both the phone and cable TV companies are hybrid fibre to the neighbourhood. I'm on cable and get 60 Mb down & 10 up. In fact my download is usually low - mid 70s. Upload is almost always close to 10 Mb, usually slightly higher. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/23/2014 03:04 PM, James Knott wrote:
Otherwise, I'm also limited to 1 Mbit (the contract says "up to 8"), and considering switching to fiber (same company). In my area, both the phone and cable TV companies are hybrid fibre to
On 12/23/2014 07:53 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: the neighbourhood. I'm on cable and get 60 Mb down & 10 up. In fact my download is usually low - mid 70s. Upload is almost always close to 10 Mb, usually slightly higher.
- in greece, on saronic-bay island, the state company OTE co-owned by Deutsche Telekom, [after many years of gosh-awful 56k connection] now does 16 MB down & 800k. up-load : and, Cyprus company CYTA now competing with blazing high-speed fibre-glass service ............ regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
I use a modified version of this - https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli cron'd to run at regular intervals. If it fails, you can have it write out a log, etc. Personally, I use it to post the results to my Xively feed so that my ISP can view the speeds throughout the day/week/etc when there are problems. Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On December 23, 2014 7:53:57 AM EST, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
For many years, I had your problem, although it usually took less than a minute to reconnect. Then, one day, somebody came and worked on the connection box, probably adding a neighbour. Later I noticed that my phone was completely down, so I complained. Somebody came, I pointed to the box, he went there, he connected me back, I tested, I complained of noise, and this chap decided to switch me to a spare copper pair, an operation that needs a reconnect in the box and in the exchange some kilometers away.
Often it is less than kilometers. At least here, the telephone company will set up a slic (subscriber line interface) when they have a 100 or so subscribers in one area. I live in a townhouse with a couple hundred other townhouses in the area. Our slic is at the entrance to the community. The twisted pair only run from the slic to the house. They have been in the ground for about 40 years so many are bad, but they are only 1/2 a km or so long. I've had the pair I used changed several times over the years. (The cable from the slic to my building has 50 twisted pair in it and many of the pair's are unused/spare/bad.) I left all that behind a few years ago and now use cable for everything (coax cable delivers the service, not fiber). Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/23/2014 09:27 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I left all that behind a few years ago and now use cable for everything (coax cable delivers the service, not fiber).
There may be fibre to the neighbourhood, as we have here. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/23/2014 07:32 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 12/23/2014 09:27 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I left all that behind a few years ago and now use cable for everything (coax cable delivers the service, not fiber). There may be fibre to the neighbourhood, as we have here.
Fiber down the street is how it's done here too. All utilities are buried here and Cox Cable actually laid fiber down all the streets in 1996 or so. Above-ground boxes interface the fiber to coax to feed clusters of about eight houses. I've been getting about 100-MB down 25-MB up as measured by Ookla and has been reliable. We've had good service from Cox, I just hope they aren't purchased by the likes of Comcast! Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
I am connected with the internet with the only internet provider in my area. This is ADSL with a download speed of max. 1.5 Mbps and and upload speed of about 0,40 Mbps.
I could live with these speeds if the connection would be reliable. If it rains or if there are strong winds, the connection goes dead and it will take some time to reconnect (several minutes).
The company which owns the telephone lines is not impressed by my connection problems and does not react to complaints. They tell me that next year or so we may get our connection over glass-fiber cables.
In order to make some weight with my complaints and getting at least a reliable connection I am looking for a program which logs at least the times that I loose connection. Speed is of no interest for the moment. Somebody know of a program doing just that?
Your ADSL modem perhaps? I stoppped using ADSL a while back, but the modem had the option of logging all sorts of messages, including link up/down, to syslog. I think it also send SNMP traps for link up/down. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R. -
Christopher Myers -
Constant Brouerius van Nidek -
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Greg Freemyer -
James Knott -
Lew Wolfgang -
Per Jessen -
Werner Flamme