[160771] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: home network monitoring and shaping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Tue Feb 12 17:07:35 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:07:15 +0000
In-Reply-To: <511ABA76.8040003@mtcc.com>
Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Someone created an application for uverse users that goes into the gateway =
and pulls relevant information. The information (link retrain, for example)=
is then color coded for caution and out of range. The application is calle=
d up real time, not something peddled by at&t to show how "great" your conn=
ection is. People unfortunately believe a speed test is a reliable way to m=
easure a connection quality. There may be utilities out there like this tha=
t look at signal levels and statistics to tell the user their connection bl=
ows. I believe the uvrealtime application actually shows the provider sendi=
ng resets as a deterrent for using bit torrent.
From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
-------- Original message --------
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Date: 02/12/2013 1:57 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: home network monitoring and shaping
O oracle of nanog: unlike things like rogue processes eating tons of CPU,
it seems to me that network monitoring is essentially a black art for the
average schmuck home network operator (of which I count myself). That
is: if the "network is slow", it's really hard to tell why that might be an=
d
who of the eleventy seven devices on my wifi is sucking the life out of my
bandwidth. And then even if I get an idea of who the perp is, my remediatio=
n
choice seems to be "find that device, smash it with sledge hammer".
It seems that there really ought to be a better way here to manage my
home network. Like, for example, the ability to get stats from router and
tell it to shape various devices/flows to play nice. Right now, it seems to
me that the state of the art is pretty bad -- static-y kinds of setups for
static-y kinds of flows that people-y kind of users don't understand or
touch on their home routers.
The ob-nanog is that "my intertoobs r slow" is most likely a call to your
support desks which is expensive, of course. Is anything happening on
this front? Is openwrt, for example, paying much attention to this problem?
Mike
