[TriLUG] Request for help: residential internet service provider options.

[Steve Holton via TriLUG]

Hi Matt-

Can you suggest any alternatives?

I'm looking for something that can be called from a command line, but also
lightweight enough to complete successfully under these conditions.

I've tried the CLI version of Netalyzr (
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html) but it reports so many
problems it's hard to pinpoint any corrective action i can take.  Plus it
always complains it can't measure downstream bandwidth because the packets
are blocked.


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> > Hi all-
> >
> > I'm in a monopoly-provider location (Windstream DSL on the Hwy 42-side of
> > Harris Lake) and for the past two weeks I've been seeing 20-30% packet
> > loss
> > (for pings to their DNS server).
> I too concur with the suggestion of trying a different DNS server.  It has
> been my experience on several occasions that when "internet" service would
> go down, what was happening was really a failure to get DNS that once
> bypassed would work flawlessly.  The Google DNS is an option and it is
> also pretty easy to run a local copy of Bind's resolver as a caching DNS
> and point to Google or something other than your ISP as a forwarder.
>
> My second comment is that a ping test can be a poor metric for
> performance, especially in times of peak usage such as the afternoon and
> evening when you are indicating degraded performance.  Ping, or rather
> ICMP in general, tends to be de-prioritized greatly and this may not
> accurately reflect your true status.
>
>
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