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

[Robert Dale via TriLUG]

Simple DNS benchmark:

dig @dns-server-ip hostname | grep "Query time"

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Steve Holton via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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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