[cfgeeks] Anyone have BrightHouse in the Altamonte Springs area- 436/434 intersection...

[Jeff Iddings]

What I mean is..  if a router failed between Google and myself, I might
have a higher packet loss being shown that is no fault of BrightHouse.
By pinging the gateway I should always get a response as long the cable
modem is insync (presumably).

Jeff

Kevin Inscoe wrote:
> Not sure what you mean by "skewed" but point is pinging would show the
> packet loss and also the times the connection was not available. I do
> like the idea about pinging the gateway inside Roadrunner (I assume
> that's who you have) as long as that does not change when  the lease
> runs out.
> 
> On Dec 14, 2007 9:12 AM, Jeff Iddings <jeff at iddings.us> wrote:
>> I'm just using Nagios to ping my default gateway. It's not an IP issue,
>> pinging anything beyond that could create skewed results.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> Kevin P. Inscoe wrote:
>>> Andy Stetzinger wrote:
>>>> If you post it on Slashdot, under the Ask Slashdot area, you'd be better
>>>> off with a final section asking questions.
>>>> Has anyone else had a similar experience?
>>>> If so, what did they do about it?
>>>> Is there any other course of action one would recommend?
>>>> On a side note, one of the things you could do is get a monitoring service.
>>>> WebSitePulse offers a free 30 day trial, and I would recommend them over
>>>> one of us in the group simply because they are independent and impartial.
>>>> They'll track a plethora of services on your network, just give them IP
>>>> address or dynamic host (or whatever).
>>> I would do a ping from a box inside the house outward to something
>>> reliable like google.com and log the results.
>>>
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