And, its easy to have an automated BW test script on a Mikrotik to test back to another TIK at a preset interval.. say once every 30 minutes do a 10 or 30 second BW test.
We have insisted on Tik’s at every install since Jan 2014. GREATLY improved abilities to troubleshoot. If say a business customer has a VPN router that they manage etc, then we put a 951-2n (now the cheaper replacement even) in with all interfaces bridged that we can monitor. Its worth the $ 40 (now $ 20) in those instances. Most customers get a 951-2HnD or a 2011 at their house or business with the radio bridged. Paul From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Fankhauser Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 11:44 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Drop in monitoring device for troubleshooting customers I drop in a Mikrotik RB941 to customers that have suspected issues. I can comptletely monitor their entire network that way, WIFI and all. Kurt Fankhauser Wavelinc Communications P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 http://www.wavelinc.com<http://www.wavelinc.com/> tel. 419-562-6405 fax. 419-617-0110 On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:41 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com<mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote: Im dealing with a customer with what appears to be a legitimate complaint of slowness, high latency. The biggest problem is its happenning at night so its not like we can go to his house and troubleshoot. The issue doesnt appear to be visible in any of our monitoring, but we are limited to viewing from this end and not his I had him download pingplotter and leave it running to a specific IP so show us his outbound path when this is going on, but so far it hasnt resulted in anything useful. I do have an air router set up as a monitoring bridge between his 450 and his router from when we were troubleshooting his 2.4 fsk before we switch him to 3.65. As far as I can tell this isnt a radio issue, hes always 8x/8x Is there any custom load to drop into this air router that would give me some tools like iperf or any other nifty networking tools that would give me the equivalent of a console at his house to troubleshoot from? We have a bunch of old thin clients laying around here I have considered dropping some lightweight linux onto for a drop in toolset, is anyone aware of any specific load for that purpose? -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
