Internet Uptime Monitor

I've been having issues with my DSL for about 2 years now. I keep loosing my connection with them. I normally call on the weekends and they send a tech out the following Monday. By that time the connection is stable and they can't find anything wrong.

I would have moved to another provider but they are the only High Speed option I have except for satellite but I can't use that because I stream tons of Hulu and Netflix movies. I pretty much don't even call them anymore and just face the fact that my internet connection I pay for sucks.

Anyways, I was wondering if there are any free, windows based internet monitors that I can set up to monitor my internet connection 24/7 and have it record when it goes down? I have a friend in upper management at my DSL provider that "may" be able to help me if I can show them the results from my monitoring.

I know for sure they will lose a customer as soon as another provider comes online in my area!

Thanks!

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darkerosxx

What I would do is set up a script to ping a very public site like 4.2.2.2 and record the ping results in a text file.

mikem2te

shadown7 wrote: »

I've been having issues with my DSL for about 2 years now. I keep loosing my connection with them. I normally call on the weekends and they send a tech out the following Monday. By that time the connection is stable and they can't find anything wrong.

I would have moved to another provider but they are the only High Speed option I have except for satellite but I can't use that because I stream tons of Hulu and Netflix movies. I pretty much don't even call them anymore and just face the fact that my internet connection I pay for sucks.

Anyways, I was wondering if there are any free, windows based internet monitors that I can set up to monitor my internet connection 24/7 and have it record when it goes down? I have a friend in upper management at my DSL provider that "may" be able to help me if I can show them the results from my monitoring.

I know for sure they will lose a customer as soon as another provider comes online in my area!

Thanks!

I wrote a program a couple of years ago to do this, I'll try to dig it out.

RobertKaucher

 
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This is a powershell script that will tell you the date/time of the test, which host is being pinged, and the status of the ping. The hosts that are pinged are in the $remoteHosts array. You can add more for more detailed info. Like add the IP addresses of your ISPs DNS servers, etc. You could also expand the script to include response time, etc. Also, if the log.csv file does not exist, the script creates it. Change the path as you wish. Just set PowerShell to run the script via scheduled tasks.

shadown7

Thanks everyone for the replies.

I'll check out that script.

Keith

Hyper-Me

RobertKaucher wrote: »

 
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For some reason I can't get it to run. :-/

networker050184

Not to be a downer, but not being able to ping a random site from your PC isn't much proof that your internet is down. The site may be unreachable or there could be a problem with your PC or any number of things not caused by your DSL connection. I know I wouldn't take that as proof personally. Your best bet would probably be to move the DSL termination to your own router and log the messages when it goes down. Then you get into the are of them not trusting your router

You are in for an up hill battle for sure. Good luck!

Bl8ckr0uter

networker050184 wrote: »

Not to be a downer, but not being able to ping a random site from your PC isn't much proof that your internet is down. The site may be unreachable or there could be a problem with your PC or any number of things not caused by your DSL connection. I know I wouldn't take that as proof personally. Your best bet would probably be to move the DSL termination to your own router and log the messages when it goes down. Then you get into the are of them not trusting your router You are in for an up hill battle for sure. Good luck!

Very very true. At my last job we used EM7 to monitor the states of tunnels that used cables modems for connections (GRE tunnels). I was thinking about something like Nagios. Nagios - The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring. IF you network was set up like this

dslModem>>CiscoRouter>>Switch

You could use snmp to minor the port status of the port directly connected to the modem on the cisco router ( and look for the layer 2 down messages). I am working on getting this set up.

You could also just set up a syslog server and look through the logs like Networker said.

RobertKaucher

Hyper-Me wrote: »

For some reason I can't get it to run. :-/

For some reason the spacing gets FUBAR when I paste scripts into the message box here on TE

Make sure
$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
Is spaced as above

$log = "C:\script\log.csv"
$remoteHosts = @("8.8.8.8", "[URL="http://www.google.com"]www.google.com[/URL]")
$headers = "Time and Date, Remote Host, Status"
if(!(test-path $log)){ $headers | Out-File $log }
$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
foreach($system in $remoteHosts)
{
 
$reply=$ping.send($system)
$stat=$reply.Status
$date=Get-Date
$text="$date, $system, $stat`n"
$text | Out-File $log -Append
 
}

The above looks clean enough...

RobertKaucher

networker050184 wrote: »

Not to be a downer, but not being able to ping a random site from your PC isn't much proof that your internet is down. The site may be unreachable or there could be a problem with your PC or any number of things not caused by your DSL connection. I know I wouldn't take that as proof personally. Your best bet would probably be to move the DSL termination to your own router and log the messages when it goes down. Then you get into the are of them not trusting your router You are in for an up hill battle for sure. Good luck!

That's very true but it is also why I configured my script to work with IP addresses and multiple hosts.

In my area the number one issue with a net connection being "dropped" is DNS servers not being able to being contacted.

I suggest that the OP include the IP address of his home router, a device on the local network, another common host by IP (like a public DNS server other than google's) and the ISP's web site by domain name, and a host by IP address on the ISPs network like the DFG assigned to the public IP address.

tiersten

knwminus wrote: »

dslModem>>CiscoRouter>>Switch

You could use snmp to minor the port status of the port directly connected to the modem on the cisco router ( and look for the layer 2 down messages). I am working on getting this set up.

How would you monitor it from the layer 2 messages? I've not seen any DSL modems that actually shutdown their internal LAN interface when the WAN side goes down. It'd make configuring it from the LAN pretty difficult for one.

I use Cacti and MRTG to monitor my ADSL connection. I wrote a Python script that logs into my ADSL router and extracts the line stats like noise, current speed, maximum attainable speed and errors so Cacti and MRTG can graph that data. It does have SNMP but it doesn't have any OIDs that export the line stats. I can see when the connection actually dies because there are blips on the graphs and when the MSAN/DSLAM decides to retrain my connection and give me a different line profile.

I ping something on my local network, the APs, the router itself, the firewall, the DSL modem, the ping host at my ISP, Google and the colo servers I've got. At one point I had a problem with the backhaul connection between APs dying but that seems to have disappeared with the last IOS upgrade.

Bl8ckr0uter

tiersten wrote: »

How would you monitor it from the layer 2 messages? I've not seen any DSL modems that actually shutdown their internal LAN interface when the WAN side goes down. It'd make configuring it from the LAN pretty difficult for one.

What we did was monitor the tunnel (see if it went layer 1 or layer 2 down) and monitor the interface connected to itself went down. I should say that all of the monitoring was down on the Cisco Router side.

tiersten

knwminus wrote: »

What we did was monitor the tunnel (see if it went layer 1 or layer 2 down) and monitor the interface connected to itself went down. I should say that all of the monitoring was down on the Cisco Router side.

Ahh okay. Yeah. If you've got a tunnel then that'd work. You wouldn't be able to get it to work using just a regular DSL modem though. The best really is to see if you can monitor the line stats and status via a script or SNMP along with pinging select destinations.

IP SLA on the Cisco would be good in this case.

MentholMoose

shadown7 wrote: »

I've been having issues with my DSL for about 2 years now. I keep loosing my connection with them. I normally call on the weekends and they send a tech out the following Monday. By that time the connection is stable and they can't find anything wrong.

I would have moved to another provider but they are the only High Speed option I have except for satellite but I can't use that because I stream tons of Hulu and Netflix movies. I pretty much don't even call them anymore and just face the fact that my internet connection I pay for sucks.

Anyways, I was wondering if there are any free, windows based internet monitors that I can set up to monitor my internet connection 24/7 and have it record when it goes down? I have a friend in upper management at my DSL provider that "may" be able to help me if I can show them the results from my monitoring.

I know for sure they will lose a customer as soon as another provider comes online in my area!

Thanks!

I've been there and I feel your frustration. Do you have phone service, and if so, is the quality impacted at all? If there is static or any problem at all, file a complaint with your state's public utilities commission and the phone company will have to fix it (and hopefully your DSL will also get fixed in the process). Unfortunately PUC complaints won't help if it's only your DSL.

You should call your DSL provider when you are down so the first level rep can verify that you're down and perform basic troubleshooting (power cycle modem, plug-unplug test, etc.). Make sure to request that they note the downtime on your account, and request a service credit for the downtime. Record the ticket number and rep's name or ID, and the time.

It's OK if a tech is sent out the next day when it's working, you just have to establish a history of trouble with your service. Once that history is established, the next time you have an outage, request to be escalated to chronic troubles (that's what Verizon calls it, other companies may vary). Once they are involved it is likely that someone will figure out the problem. Just keep pushing and requesting service credits, and don't give up, eventually it will get fixed. I think this is a better way to go than trying to monitor your service unless your contact really has some influence.

Now for my situation. The DSL at my home was stable during the day, but intermittent or down completely from sunset to sunrise. This was a problem because nobody will dispatch at night, which was the only time I was having a problem, so the average tech being dispatched will never see the problem happening and won't be able to do anything. A further complication is that I have DSL through an ISP, so I was dealing with the ISP, a CLEC, and the ILEC... it was a mess, but I kept at it, opening new tickets as fast as the ILEC could close them. I set up tons of dispatches with the ILEC and CLEC, and even multiple vendor meets. They checked the inside wiring, replaced the phone jack, replaced the modem, replaced the NID, replaced a card on the DSLAM, fixed various problems with the loop, and probably other things that I'm not remembering.

After several months my persistence paid off, and the right person at the ILEC got my ticket. This guy was awesome, he had great customer service skills (friendly, understanding, gave me multiple status updates daily via phone, etc.) and he really knew what he was doing. He was in charge of a line team (I think that's what it was called), and once he had my ticket, my DSL was fixed within a week. His team did some testing and found the problem right away: an old (1970s) terminal buried in the sidewalk in front of my house was bad. A dig crew was called in immediately, and multiple trenches were dug. The old terminal was removed, a new one was spliced in, and my service was fixed!!

Once they confirmed I was up and running, the trenches were (eventually) filled, the sidewalk was repaired, and they fixed the sprinkler that someone broke in the process. This ordeal did last several months, but I received service credits for those months, and the end result is that I have rock solid DSL where I will be living for a while, so it was worth it.