Internet Connection Monitoring Software

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Does anyone know of a good free tool to monitor and possibly log the status of my internet connection? The reason I'm asking is that I just changed my router and everything seems to be working fine but my irc client (mirc) seems to be disconnecting every so often. I've tried keeping an open ping but never seem to catch it at the right time plus I'd like some evidence to take to Belkin. The drop outs must be pretty brief because I'm not seeing them affecting my browsing or other apps.
 
Hello

You can run a ping output to a text file, just type the following or replace d:\ with a destination of your choice, the relevant ip address and url.

ping 192.168.0.1 -t > d:\pingfile.txt

or

ping www.google.com -t > d:\url.txt

You will then be left with a basic text file of ping requests. You could also change the pingfile name to whatever you choose and run two of them concurrently in separate command windows.
 
Doh! Thanks Andy :bonk:

EDIT: Actually, if anyone does know of an actual tool that does this I would still be interested. What the ping approach does not give me it times when the connection went down.

Tnx
 
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-- Only works in Windows 7 -- There is no "choice" command in XP.

I had a quick look but only found router specific tools, I use Smoothwall so no help there. Ping can still be made to do what you want

Put these commands in a batch file, call it anything you want "test.bat" will do and start it, it will ping a host (www.google.com) in this case every 30 seconds or so, if it doesn't get a response "the TTL bit" it will log the date and time to c:\temp\failed.txt. Just close the DOS window when you want to stop it. Not very sophisticated but it works (in Win7).

@echo off
md c:\temp
cls
:top
ping -n 1 www.google.com | find "TTL"
if errorlevel 1 echo No Network Connection on %date% at %time% >>c:\temp\failed.txt
choice /T 30 /C yn /CS /D y >nul
goto top
 
I use pingplotter on xp machines, don't know if it works in win 7.
Download a trial version.
 
I hadnt realsied choice came back in windows 7 but you can have it in xp simply copy it from a previouse version of windows if anyone needs it I can send a copy
 
jd.smith said:
I hadnt realsied choice came back in windows 7 but you can have it in xp simply copy it from a previouse version of windows if anyone needs it I can send a copy
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It's only used as a work around in this example, something similar to the Unix sleep command would be very useful in Windows.
 
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