On Fri, 7 May 2021 20:02:13 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been having trouble using zoom recently. > If there's a large meeting, no questions I ask can heard clearly, > even if the meeting uses the protocol of muting everyone else. > > I also have problems with short browser delays that may last a few > seconds to a minute or so. > > However, the pppoe connection stays up when this happens. > > I've been complaining to the ISP, who does what it can and raises > tickets with the phone company. > > There has been improvement since two weeks ago, when the ppp > connectino would drop even more frequenty than the delays I'm > encountering now. > > The problem usually occurs in the daytime, but occasionally in the > evening. > > The phone company now opines that the data rate on the connection is > barely sufficient for a multiparty zoom connection, and this is > because of the distance to the exchange. > > > **** > Now I'd like to measure what's going on in my system. > **** > > > My home network accesses the rest of the world using a Linux box, > whch also hosts a website, does SMTP, does firewalling/masquerading, > and has a file server for the LAN. That Linux box is the only thing > connected directly to the DSL modem, which operates in bridge mode. > > What tools does Linux have to measure this, so I can find out > what's going on in my network and why. And maybe even correlate > measurable activity with the perceived hiatuses. > > I'd be surprisd if there were none, Linux being born on the net. > (I'd even be more surprised if they were easy to use.) > > Maybe I do ned to replace my DSL with a higher-capacity connection of > some kind. But I'd like to see the numbers. Often enough that kind of problem is due to DNS being slow rather than actual networking; is it the same with a local, caching DNS ? Ralph. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
