We use another organisation's wireless on an occasional basis, and are occasionally stymied by the router (a BT Business Hub 5) flashing orange instead of steady blue. This indicates either a router problem or a fibre line problem, intermittent because it recovers itself quickly. The laptops we use drop connection with the primary website we use. The fibre cabinet is only about 100 metres up the road, and BT says "there aren't any line problems"...
I would like to monitor on a fairly continuous basis any instances of line dropping/router dropping, preferably externally since it isn't our router or local network. However, I suspect that external PINGing has been turned off on the router. I'm hoping that someone knows of a utility which could monitor (fairly frequently, say every five seconds) whether the router and line are working, to produce a table with lines like:
Line/router dropped: start time yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss for nnn seconds
I haven't found anything via Google...
Creative ideas welcomed!
How best to monitor a router/fibre line dropping
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How best to monitor a router/fibre line dropping
John Gray
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Re: How best to monitor a router/fibre line dropping
I use Net Uptime Monitor for this. It's not free, but it was pretty cheap.
StuartR
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Re: How best to monitor a router/fibre line dropping
Thanks, Stuart - that looks ideal!
John Gray
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