Any idea where it caps out at? I have one on my desk here that I can do a test with if need be. It's only a 10/100 interface, so obviously it's not going to be useful for testing a Gigabit link, but if you are only testing 5Mbps connections maybe it would be just fine for that.
-- Christopher Tyler MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE Total Highspeed Internet Services 417.851.1107 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 9:21:34 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Drop in monitoring device for troubleshooting customers Can't really do TCP speed tests... Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Apr 3, 2015 9:58 AM, "Christopher Tyler" <ch...@totalhighspeed.net> wrote: > Get a RaspberryPi 2 (RPi2) and roll your own network tap. > $35 for the RPi2 itself (which is now a dual core 1GHz CPU with 1GB RAM), > another $10-15 for a case, SD card, and a USB power supply. > Anything you can do with a Linux PC (or Windows 10, probably stripped down > version) you can do with the RPi2. > > -- > Christopher Tyler > MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE > Total Highspeed Internet Services > 417.851.1107 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerard Dupont III" <ger...@shelbybb.com> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 4:21:19 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Drop in monitoring device for troubleshooting > customers > > If you signup to be a speedtest server for them, it's free except for the > device which is a few hundred. > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:36 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm < > thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > holy cats, thats pricey, but much worth looking into, thanks!! > > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gerard Dupont III <ger...@shelbybb.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Steve, > >> > >> Another option is to signup as a speedtest host for Visual Ware's > >> MyConnection Server suite of tests. They give you an option to buy one > of > >> their small testing devices which you can then give to a customer and > have > >> it run any of MCS tests in an automated fashion. There is also an option > >> for installing the automated software on the customers computer. > >> > >> http://www.myconnectionserver.com/learnmore/quality.html > >> > >> Gerard > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:41 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm < > >> 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. > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > >
