[Wylug-help] Slow Internet with Ubuntu 11.04

[Christopher McLean]

Mtr by default just keeps running until you CTRL-c it. To get it to generate one offs, try:

mtr --report --report-cycles=NN google.com

where NN is a positive integer. You could easily cron the above command to run (hourly?) with something like:

mtr --report --report-cycles=NN google.com > /PATH/TO/SOMEWHERE/mtr-report.`date +%F_%H%M`

"man mtr" is your friend, and chrome all but installs itself from here: 

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=en-GB&platform=linux

Chris

| -----Original Message-----
| From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk [mailto:wylug-help-
| bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of T. Noland
| Sent: 02 September 2011 15:17
| To: Wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
| Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Slow Internet with Ubuntu 11.04
| 
| Hi Chris,
| 1. That "mtr" was a new one on me. Anyway I tried it, but how do I make
| it keep showing the statistics when it ends?
| 2. I access the router's pages with it's LAN IP (192.168..., the
| gateway address)
| 3. Nope, haven't tried any other browser, as far as I know there isn't
| another in the distro (I might be wrong there), and I haven't
| got round to installing any more software yet, as, if this installation
| turns out to be duff, I'd be wasting effort anyway.
| 4. I'll investigate that "mtr" a bit more, to see if I can get the
| output to stay on the screen when it finishes.
| Trevor.
| 
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Christopher McLean" <C.J.McLean at leeds.ac.uk>
| To: <Wylug-help at wylug.org.uk>
| Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 10:49 AM
| Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Slow Internet with Ubuntu 11.04
| 
| 
| > If it goes again, try something like:
| >
| > mtr google.com
| >
| > Might be best to do that while it's happy as well, just to give you a
| baseline. This should give you some idea on which hop the
| > bottleneck is, as it's sounding more like gremlins in the pipes than
| any specific hardware issues; keep an eye on packet loss and
| > average ping times.
| >
| > few more quick question;
| > * are you accessing the router web interface on its internal or
| external IP. It could be getting confused with packets originating
| > on the local network hitting its external address
| > * have you tried another browser (chrome?), just to rule out firefox
| being dumb?
| >
| > Chris
| >
| 
| 
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