Internet monitoring tools for cursing out cable Internet provider.

[Brian Durant]

 --- Fabio A Mazzarino <fabio.mazzarino at gmail.com>
skrev: 
>  Brian:
> 
>  Sometimes, discover that your 128kbps link is
> actually a 12,8 kbps
> link won't mean a better connection after a asking
> for a better
> connection to your provider.
> 
>  Take a very good read to your contract. Here at
> home (Telefonica) I
> can't say a word if I discover that I'm 50% below
> contracted link, the
> contract garantee only 10% with a limited number of
> outages of less
> then 30 minutes. :o/
> 
>  Anyway, back to your question, runing something
> from apache doesn't
> mean that others then yourself will have access.
> Probably your ISP
> will block port 80, and you can also block it by
> yourself with a
> simple modification at httpd.conf, then you access
> your "service"
> using http://localhost/service
> 
>  mazza.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:49:17 +0100 (CET), Brian
> Durant
> <linuxnewbiedk at yahoo.dk> wrote:
> >  --- Paul Sladen <sounder at paul.sladen.org> skrev:
> > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Brian Durant wrote:
> > > > I was wondering if there are any tools that a
> > > relative newbie can use
> > > > that produces some output that I can shake in
> the
> > > face of my cable
> > > > representative
> > >
> > > Try 'smokeping'.
> > >
> > > Like virtually all of these tools, you run it
> from
> > > Apache and access it with
> > > a browser.
> > >
> > >       -Paul
> > > --
> > > Is there no safe way to travel?  London, GB
> > 
> > When you say "run it from Apache and access it
> with a
> > browser" it sounds as if you think I want to serve
> > something. I don't want to run a server, I just
> want
> > some applets or something that log different
> > characteristics of my Internet connection, that I
> can
> > print out or e-mail.
> > 

No, I was thinking more about a program like smokeping
+ Apache = newbie disaster??? I have looked at the
homepage and it looks interesting, but isn't this
beyond my capabilities as a newbie?

Cheers,

Brian
>