internet connection speed: is there some software to log and document connectivity?

[xpatico]

hey all,
i need to tap the collective wisdom of this group. living in costa rica has its good points and its drawbacks, obviously. my isp works on a wifi network with towers relaying signal to my fairly remote location. i enrolled with their service because they are literally the only game in town. my service began in dec 09 and has been sketchy at best. i would like to be able to monitor and log the connection speed and reliability of their service to give me more leverage in disputing their billing for inferior service. is there any software that has the ability to acquire and graph data related to bytes and rates as a function of time? something to run in the background while using the internet? i will be infinitely grateful for any advice you could send my way.
thanks and keep on pickin'
rob

[Luke]

Originally Posted by xpatico

hey all,
i need to tap the collective wisdom of this group. living in costa rica has its good points and its drawbacks, obviously. my isp works on a wifi network with towers relaying signal to my fairly remote location. i enrolled with their service because they are literally the only game in town. my service began in dec 09 and has been sketchy at best. i would like to be able to monitor and log the connection speed and reliability of their service to give me more leverage in disputing their billing for inferior service. is there any software that has the ability to acquire and graph data related to bytes and rates as a function of time? something to run in the background while using the internet? i will be infinitely grateful for any advice you could send my way.
thanks and keep on pickin'
rob

What is your recourse, to quit using them?

You should be able to get satellite reception internet, but here it is expensive and spotty as well. Hughes Net.

[Jarrett]

ping plotter

[vds5000]

Try:

www.speedtest.net

Not sure if it works in your location though.

[Hacksaw]

the best I know of , Does GREAT at logging traffic but smaller group of supported routers.
http://www.paessler.com/prtg6 There is a freeware version that should track bandwidth.

I dont know if wallwatcher will track bandwidth, but, its free.

[yomama]

If you run windows you can open a command window and do "pint -t google.com"

stop it do "<ctrl> c" you can then copy it and paste to a txt file.
or you can do "ping -t google.com > ping.txt" this will create a file ping.txt .. you can open in notepad. It will just sit there as it wirtes the file.. "<ctrl> c" to stop it
you can let it run for a few hours no problem. If you are doing long runs for research save it to file.

The output or the file will look something like this below:
An average time of 200 millisecnds or less should get you by considering where you are. Also you may "Request Time Out"... if you are getting any of those its not good.

Pinging google.com [66.249.90.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.249.90.104: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=51
Ping statistics for 66.249.90.104:
Packets: Sent = 12, Received = 12, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 45ms, Maximum = 54ms, Average = 46ms
Control-C
^C
C:\Documents and Settings\