[Scottish] Network testing tools?

[Daniel J. Owens]

Hi All,

2 points.

1. Demon are allegedly a bit crap, I have had similar problems with them
going back to the Scottish Telecom merger.   The big problem in those days
was the head end router at linx - and the bits of the company that were
Scottish Telecom apparently refused to cooperate with the demon guys.   No
amount of traceroutes and ping stats would make them accept they were having
problems.   Sound familiar?

2. Dont confuse kilobits per second with kilobytes per second (there is a
factor of 8 in there) - sounds to me like you are getting a healthy 512kb/s
download there - lets not be greedy!   How does that compare with your
brother?

cheers,
Danny

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant" <Elise.Huard at sbs.siemens.co.uk>
To: "S.L.U.G" <scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:08 AM
Subject: RE: [Scottish] Network testing tools?


> In last Linux Format's DVD i think there was a network monitoring tool,
> netwox, but i'm not sure it would help you in this case. (there are
probably
> a whole lot of others around anyway)
>
> by the way, ADSL in the UK is a pure rip-off.  I have a connection at
home,
> about ?20/month, and at best i get 65-70Kb/s.  I complained about this,
and
> i was told this was normal for my package.
> My brother in Belgium pays the same, and he gets 300-320kB/s !!  I don't
> think there's a rational (non-market related) explanation for such a
> difference.
>
> > ----------
> > From: Mark Robinson[SMTP:mcr at reason-technology.com]
> > Sent: 04 December 2003 10:34
> > To: S.L.U.G
> > Subject: [Scottish] Network testing tools?
> >
> > Hello S.L.U.G,
> >
> > I'm having trouble proving to Demon that there are problems with an
> > ADSL connection. It's _really_ slow at times, comes to a halt, then
> > everything seems to load.  We've had pings with 19% packet loss to one
> > of Demon's own name servers!
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for network testing tools to try
> > and pin down the problem?  I tried doing a traceroute and then running
> > pings to all hops along the route, but there's nothing consistent.
> >
> > *sound of hair being removed by the handful*
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark.
> >
> >
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