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

[Jeff Iddings]

Oy. I think I've ruffled some feathers.. I'm update you all after the
weekend.

Jeff

Jeff Iddings wrote:
> 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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