Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

I will post a pingplotter result "soon"

1698168554495.png

Had to switch to mobile to get it downloaded.
1698169776236.png
1698169833334.png
 
Last edited:
Slightly off topic, what freeware can I run on Windows that will monitor connectivity 24/7 and log it? Preferably to one internet destination and on LAN destination?

The reason I ask is each time I connect to my folk's router on MTN Fixed LTE it works flawlessly, and I get the 50mbps they pay for - but they report numerous drops which I am trying to pinpoint (I suspect it is on their LAN side).
 
Rouxenator said:
Slightly off topic, what freeware can I run on Windows that will monitor connectivity 24/7 and log it? Preferably to one internet destination and on LAN destination?

The reason I ask is each time I connect to my folk's router on MTN Fixed LTE it works flawlessly, and I get the 50mbps they pay for - but they report numerous drops which I am trying to pinpoint (I suspect it is on their LAN side).
Click to expand...

Perhaps very complex solution, but you can run Docker Desktop and then run Smokeping?
 
@frost717 Metrofibre confirmed the cause of the intermittent service in the last few days in PE. They have 2 NLD links down due to fibre breaks, and traffic has been routed via an alternative path.
Unfortunately, there is no ETA given yet.
 
Rouxenator said:
Slightly off topic, what freeware can I run on Windows that will monitor connectivity 24/7 and log it? Preferably to one internet destination and on LAN destination?

The reason I ask is each time I connect to my folk's router on MTN Fixed LTE it works flawlessly, and I get the 50mbps they pay for - but they report numerous drops which I am trying to pinpoint (I suspect it is on their LAN side).
Click to expand...
uptime-kuma? Not a gui app though... docker or home-assistant required
1698230213987.png
1698230279925.png
 
Rouxenator said:
Slightly off topic, what freeware can I run on Windows that will monitor connectivity 24/7 and log it? Preferably to one internet destination and on LAN destination?

The reason I ask is each time I connect to my folk's router on MTN Fixed LTE it works flawlessly, and I get the 50mbps they pay for - but they report numerous drops which I am trying to pinpoint (I suspect it is on their LAN side).
Click to expand...
If you have a raspberry pi floating around, something like: https://github.com/rsvp/speedtest-linux?

or directly from their github:
/tmp$ echo "$(curl -skLO https://git.io/speedtest.sh && chmod +x speedtest.sh && ./speedtest.sh)" Gives: date, time, ping, download, upload
2023-10-25, 14:22, 12.459, 96.08, 67.10

You can run the above via crontab, and direct output to a csv / text file.
Even better if you can direct the output to a mounted google drive (mount via google-drive-ocamlfuse) which will give you easy (cross platform) remote access to the results
PS: I did something similair monitoring antenna directions for LTE at my moms place (Mounted the google drive at my place again,wrote a bit of python, using pyspark to combine the csv files )
I did one output file per day.
 
Last edited:
Thanks for the suggestions - I am looking for something that will run on Windows (CLI or GUI or Service), I have a dedicated old Optiplex with Windows 11 that will be doing the job.
 
Rouxenator said:
Thanks for the suggestions - I am looking for something that will run on Windows (CLI or GUI or Service), I have a dedicated old Optiplex with Windows 11 that will be doing the job.
Click to expand...
Maybe use the build-in Scheduled Tasks of windows to run a command in CLI every x seconds?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X