Your Favourite Open Source Software?

saor said:
Essence. Some of those basic things like tabbed Windows and the bold text for open files etc. and you realise how little Windows has changed on the frontend all these years.
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Yeah, always good to see some innovation.
 
Can anyone recommend software suitable for monitoring the quality of my home fibre connection to the Internet ?

Nothing fancy required; that said, preferably software that can measure the quality of the line (e.g. dropped packets, dropped connections, jitter etc.) over several days.

I'm having a minor scrap with my ISP: the support staff feel that all that is necessary is a local ping <sigh>
 
rrh said:
Can anyone recommend software suitable for monitoring the quality of my home fibre connection to the Internet ?

Nothing fancy required; that said, preferably software that can measure the quality of the line (e.g. dropped packets, dropped connections, jitter etc.) over several days.

I'm having a minor scrap with my ISP: the support staff feel that all that is necessary is a local ping <sigh>
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I can't say I've used anything quite like this myself. Would Smokeping or Cacti be worth looking at maybe?

I presume you don't want anything as complex as a Zabbix or a Nagios type set up - not even sure if they can monitor what you want.
 
InvisibleJim said:
I can't say I've used anything quite like this myself. Would Smokeping or Cacti be worth looking at maybe?

I presume you don't want anything as complex as a Zabbix or a Nagios type set up - not even sure if they can monitor what you want.
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Many thanks for the suggestions. To be honest, I'm not sure what I am looking for at this stage it is mainly something to prove that I am right, and that the ISP is not :laugh:

I installed Open Visual Traceroute yesterday as a starter. If you use tracert then you need this program !
 
InvisibleJim said:
Well that's going on the list for sure!

I have come across that before but had forgotten about it. Good recommendation.
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Only with pleasure. One minor warning: it requires a full Java download i.e. not just the JRE

BTW Jellyfin :thumbsup:
 
oldhat said:
Not quite, used it to test one of my own sites.
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Oh. I thought for a moment that you might have become a hacktivist and embarked on crusade to relieve the corrupt of South Africa of their ill-gotten gains and repurpose the funds for good.

/leaves disappointed
 
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