I can't pass up this opportunity to throw a jab at comcast. Once I thought that PacBell was the worst communication company but Comcast proved they were the winner of that title. I was on the SF peninsula at that time.
Back to your note, I am not sure if this will be of any value, but because of so much trouble like you describe, we now have the ISP set their device to 'bridge' mode. That way it won't cause any trouble. Then we connect something like a SMC 7004 broadband router which is very easy to program and allows you to turn the ping response on and off, block ports, DHCP, etc. You have control. At any time you can check the status of the SMC 7004 and see if you have an internet connection and see a log of who connected when, illegal connection tries, etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James E Harvey" <[email protected]> To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:29 PM Subject: [NF] network traffic software (free preferable) Our network recently started to experience problems with speed over the internet. The COMCAST SMC device would also be inaccessible due to an error message stating "Access error: data follows, can't get memory". We re-boot the SMC and access speeds are back to normal and the SMC is accessible. After a period of time (30 min to 1 1/2 hr) we're back to the bad behavior. Comcast stated that the SMC was "not locking properly". They then used ping somehow to determine the speed was poor, had us pull the network cable and announced that the ping was now fine, so according to them the problem is on our end. My question is, is there any free software that will "find" which device is going bad and sending out bad packets, if that is the problem? James E Harvey Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. M.I.S./Corresponding Officer Off: 717-637-8931 fax: 717-637-6766 email: [email protected] [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/08fb01cabaed$99233f80$7a00a...@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
