Super COOLNESS!
I'd contribute some $ for that.
Couple suggestions...
1) Emailing results was a great idea. But it would also be nice to have a
second Email address that the test would go to. it could be a hidden filed
defined in the ini file.
the purpose would be to put the ISP's Tech Email in the second field. So
everytime an end user did the test, a copy would get sent to the ISP also.
That would solve two things. a) if bad results it would send proof to the
ISP's tech. b) it would give techs an idea how frequently end users used
the tool.
2) Assign each test, a test ID. It could just be a random generated number.
That way the coipy emailed to the end user entered address, could be cross
referenced and found in the ISP tech's Email. Ultimately, I'd create a
designated ISP Email account to receive all these requests, and then it
could be easilly looked up by test ID.
3) If the Tool uses Ping, make sure the Ping uses a large packet size, such
as 1400bytes, so it gives a more meaningful latency or packetloss value.
Might be good to be less than 1470 byte packet size, jsut to make sure
someones customer VPN setting does not stop it from going through. Note:
64byte packets will often go through when a 1400 byte can't, so should use
large packet for test.
4) Some radios that use polling such as Trango will have a high latency on
the very first Ping only, if they haven't been passing data for a bit. What
would be good is if it could be configured for the very first ping to be
ignored, and not shown, and not averaged.
5) Have an update button, to download the latest update. Whether its an ini
or the exe, that can get get downloaded. The reason is that ISPs often
change their network design. The IP of edge of network very well may change.
It could also be a tool to notify end users that their PC DNS configuration
is no longer updated to the proper new DNS server.
6) connectivity to backbone router. Would like to have atleast two of these
fields. Most ISPs will be multi-homed, and will want to show their end users
that they can reach both Backbones/transits or edges of their network.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Yunker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] User check program
> How's this one look? I thought I'd put something together to be used as a
> "user check" program.
>
> It's fully functional now, but I need to build an ini file reader to hold
> each ISP's individualized settings I'll probably knock that out on
> Tuesday.
> then I'll try to publish it. If anyone sees something they would like
> changed/added, let me know.
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> Regards,
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> Larry Yunker
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> Network Consultant
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Travis Johnson
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:54 PM
> To: WISPA General List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [WISPA] User check program
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>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I was wondering if anyone has written or seen a program that would do
>
> some basic "connectivity" checking for customers? I had the thought
>
> today that it would be really cool to have a simple program people could
>
> download on their PC and then run that would do things like:
>
>
>
> (1) Ping to our backbone router via IP address (showing latency results
>
> as well)
>
> (2) Ping our main DNS servers via IP address
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> (3) Ping a domain name
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> (4) Ping our main email server
>
> (5) Ping the customers default gateway
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> (6) Show their configured IP address (both on the machine and on the
>
> Internet)
>
> (7) Speed test to our backbone (maybe just FTP a file from a local
>
> server and compute the time vs. file size?)
>
> (8) One additional button that would send all the results via email to
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> whatever email address they put in.
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>
>
> It would need to be a nice, pretty interface with a single button that
>
> says "Start". Then the results could show a Green Light for each item
>
> that was OK or a Red Light if there is a problem. It would also be nice
>
> to have your company Logo and phone number on the interface.
>
>
>
> Is anyone up for this task? I would be willing to pay to have something
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> written, unless there is already something close out there?
>
>
>
> Travis
>
> Microserv
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