Monitor network and internet

[dpds68]

As the Title says I am looking for some way to monitor and test my Network and Internet connections , I feel that my internet connections is a bit wacky so I want to have a log to see what it is doing over lets say a days time.

Thank you

[cramer]

i have a simple software, tcp viewer, it checks all active connection and listening mode. its kinda like netstat, but you can force an application to terminate internet through this program.

[dpds68]

Thanx do you have a link for that software ?

[cramer]

i have it on my email... it was just given to me by another programmer.

EDIT: this program only monitors your active connection, it cant monitor traffic on your router.

[bAdWaYz]

What exactly are you wanting to see? Are you looking for connection drops, link activity, or what? There are a number of network tools out there but knowing what you want to see would help us advise the best tool for the job.

[dpds68]

Yes I want to monitor when the connection drops and see if it's on the LAN side or the WAN that has the problem also how long it drops for , now remember this is the same computer that I lost my MAC address and I am using one from a Old NIC .

Problem also being that when on a page not doing anything I get network activity and the hour glass on the curser flashes every 10-15 sec, also during browsing some times I cant open anypage I have to wait a few min then continue as normal.

I have done some checking and found that lots of people have been having problems with the Paradyne 6211 Modem/Router that my ISP gave me , I did a firmware update and lost power a few days after and lost all my settings and could not get the Modem back up my ISP cane and replaced it with another Paradyne 6211 with a firmware update that they had and it's working but a bit wacky.


Thank you
David

[Archangel122184]

Its dirty, but its free.

start -> run -> "cmd" -> enter -> "ping -t -l 64 -w 5000 www.google.com > c:\ping.txt" -> enter

This will run a ping test on google until you use the ctrl+c key sequence and log everything out to c:\ping.txt There won't be any time stamps so you won't know when something failed, but you can figure out a few things from the errors logged.

Hardware Error: means the link failed
Destination Host Unreachable: means there is no route to the host... probably an issue with your router or ISP
Request Timmed Out: means your computer never received an acknowledgement from the host, this is probably an ISP issue, but just incase you can run a ping on your default gateway and see if your computer is still on the network.

[dpds68]

Thank You that helped alot it was timing out every now and then I called my ISP and they are having a problem so after they fix thier side I will test again.

[bAdWaYz]

I was going to suggest a ping -t but thought it might be to basic for what they were looking for. Sometimes the "keep it simple" way of doing things is the best eh?