Re: SB5120 & Comcast Woes

"mediumhappy" <weehawkenventure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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L&Gs:

Before I give up and get DSL, I am wondering if anyone has knowledge of
a utility that will allow my to monitor the availability of the
internet to my computer through the cable modem and log that
availability to a file, so that I can PROVE to them that it's down more
than it's up. I can see that they've disabled my use of SNMP, so
docsdiag won't work, but I want something a little more sophisticated
than a script that will run pings and log the results to a file.
Ideally, something that will grab the logs from the modem itself, save
them (since there appears to be no way to do that from the Surfboard
management page located at http://192.168.100.1/logs.htm), and then
snapshot the power levels upstream and downstream, etc. A Motorola tech
told me that have something that does exactly that but are prohibited
from making it available to the customers even though many of us own
our own cable modems - they claim their agreements with the cable co's
prevent them from empowering us to do anything that concrete to PROVE
how shitty their service is, and if Motorola breaks that rule the cable
co's will just switch to other modem vendors who WON'T break it.

So there you go. I'm ot a coder and a pretty lousy scripter, so if
anyone can helpme find something that'll do what I need it to do, I'd
really appreciate it. Peace.


With Comcast it's a hit or miss with service. With that in mind try
www.dslreports.com. If you are a paid member you have the option of using
their 24 hour monitoring utility which might just be what you are looking
for. Under their Tools section is a test called Line Quality Test. You
can run this test and it will ping and run a trace route as well as a few
other tests to your IP address, one from an East coast and West coast server
location. As a paid member they will allow you to set this test up to for
24 hour line monitoring. It will run the test on a routine basis and log
the results.
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/monitorfaq Read here for more info.


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