Get a RaspberryPi 2 (RPi2) and roll your own network tap. $35 for the RPi2 itself (which is now a dual core 1GHz CPU with 1GB RAM), another $10-15 for a case, SD card, and a USB power supply. Anything you can do with a Linux PC (or Windows 10, probably stripped down version) you can do with the RPi2.
-- Christopher Tyler MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE Total Highspeed Internet Services 417.851.1107 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerard Dupont III" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 4:21:19 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Drop in monitoring device for troubleshooting customers If you signup to be a speedtest server for them, it's free except for the device which is a few hundred. On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:36 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm < [email protected]> wrote: > holy cats, thats pricey, but much worth looking into, thanks!! > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gerard Dupont III <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Steve, >> >> Another option is to signup as a speedtest host for Visual Ware's >> MyConnection Server suite of tests. They give you an option to buy one of >> their small testing devices which you can then give to a customer and have >> it run any of MCS tests in an automated fashion. There is also an option >> for installing the automated software on the customers computer. >> >> http://www.myconnectionserver.com/learnmore/quality.html >> >> Gerard >> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:41 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Im dealing with a customer with what appears to be a legitimate >>> complaint of slowness, high latency. >>> >>> The biggest problem is its happenning at night so its not like we can go >>> to his house and troubleshoot. The issue doesnt appear to be visible in any >>> of our monitoring, but we are limited to viewing from this end and not his >>> >>> I had him download pingplotter and leave it running to a specific IP so >>> show us his outbound path when this is going on, but so far it hasnt >>> resulted in anything useful. >>> >>> I do have an air router set up as a monitoring bridge between his 450 >>> and his router from when we were troubleshooting his 2.4 fsk before we >>> switch him to 3.65. As far as I can tell this isnt a radio issue, hes >>> always 8x/8x >>> >>> Is there any custom load to drop into this air router that would give me >>> some tools like iperf or any other nifty networking tools that would give >>> me the equivalent of a console at his house to troubleshoot from? >>> >>> We have a bunch of old thin clients laying around here I have considered >>> dropping some lightweight linux onto for a drop in toolset, is anyone aware >>> of any specific load for that purpose? >>> >>> -- >>> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team >>> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >>> >> >> > > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >
