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Re: Network diagnostics for the end user

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric)
Mon Jun 24 09:20:59 2013

From: Eric <eric@roxanne.org>
In-Reply-To: <51C5283E.4020802@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:13:34 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

+1. It's especially helpful for wireless troubleshooting in a campus environ=
ment.  You can get a lot of info from the AP, but tend not to know what the c=
lient is seeing and it's great for catching transient events (oh, whenever t=
he elevator goes by...)

Eric


On Jun 22, 2013, at 12:29 AM, "Carlos M. Martinez" <carlosm3011@gmail.com> w=
rote:

> May sound silly, but in another life I faced a similar problem and by
> hosting local SpeedTest.net servers in our network we could fend off
> many of these calls.
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> But I guess it will depend on your customers, whether they take it or not.=

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> cheers,
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> ~Carlos
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> On 6/20/13 9:45 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>> Are there any tools out there that we could give to our end users to help=

>> diagnose network problems? We get a lot of "the Internet is slow" support=

>> calls and it would be helpful if we had something that would run on the e=
nd
>> user's computer and help characterize the problem. We have central
>> monitoring system of course but that doesn't always give a complete
>> picture, as the problem could always be on the end user's computer - slow=

>> hard drive, not enough memory, wrong name servers, etc.
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