i need to find a program that i can install on my PC that will log everytime it goes offline. Been having lots of dropouts (over 50 a day in some cases) with bigpond cable and need to make a log to show them how bad the problem is. i've found heaps of programs that half do the job but nothign descent yet. Any suggestions?

You may be able to save logs with pingplotter freeware.

no logging that i could find :(

could you just run ping -t all day and record the output of that?

Start -> Run

C:\Documents and Settings\Obes>ping -t 10.0.0.1 >c:\pingout.txt

Let it run for as long as you like ... days even...
Press ctrl-c to end

example of c:\pingout.txt

Pinging 10.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 10.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 5, Received = 5, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
Control-C

I'd advise picking a host inside the Telstra network (eg. ns0.telstra.net or some other named host, ns0 probably isn't a good choice but the telstra gimps should be able to offer you one.). Possibly supplementing your ping log with a tracert to said host.



last edited by Obes at 22:43:11 14/Apr/08

Is there any reason why you have to check for dropouts yourself? They have tools there that can see the dropouts for adsl and cable.

Squarky - I just hacked this together real quick - its a PHP script that'll try to ping www.telstra.com, and if it fails it'll just log the time to a file.

All you'll need to do is download PHP and just run it a la: php.exe connmon.php

mwuaha I know your username now obes

awesome thanks trog, i'll let it run for a few days.

I broke it apparenlty :/

PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant fp - assumed 'fp' in F:\Program Files\PHP
\conmon.phps on line 31
PHP Notice: Undefined variable: data in F:\Program Files\PHP\conmon.phps on lin
e 47

yes i have windows installed on F:
also had to add ?PHP to the top of the script to make it run :p

Ah yeh sorry, forgot the default PHP now requires that.

Also haha windows on f:

its more lol at using php to do it

I defy you to do that otherwise in less than 4 minutes in some other language obes - IF that's even your real name

perl is the only other app i could do it in too
mostly because of strawberry perl - http://strawberryperl.com/

im with trog,
i will often quickly do up a script in php and run it via console, works well.

the telstra gimps

haha, how quaintly appropriate.

pfft php. ps this is untested


pingtest.bat

@echo off

:START
ping server.com

if errorlevel 1 GOTO LOG

GOTO START

:LOG
time /T >> c:\failures.txt
GOTO START

is there anyway to make that run every 60 seconds rather than constant pinging?

The easiest and simpliest way ...

ping -t ns0.telstra.net >c:\pingout.txt

And at the bottom of the file after you press ctrl-c is

Packets: Sent = 5, Received = 5, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms


Unless your time is synchronised with their time, time stamps are about as useful as a pink poodles poo covered in candy. Interesting, but not something anyone wants.

Besides which being down 50% of the time is a far more compelling argument then "at these random times it didn't work".

Stinky did it with a batchfile for the time logging (dirty ping is a bit dodge sometimes with its errorlevel in my experience)

No downloads, no installs... you can use that on pretty much any OS

Or we could go installing random crap all over the place... Let's introduce another point of failure ...

I hate to say this.. but... Obes is right.