On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:57:42 -0400 (EDT) Keith Wright <kwright@keithdiane.us> wrote:
But I know I have heard some of you talking about statistics gathering programs for network performance. Does anyone know of a program that might help to see how well a DSL line is working, or other diagnostic tools for this?
It's possible some of that information is available on the internal interface via SNMP, but I haven't frequently seen that on consumer-grade devices. I haven't used DSL in a long while, but I know that that vast majority of cable modems have a status web page on the internal interface at http://192.168.100.1 that gives you upstream and downstream power levels, downstream SNR, frequencies used, and occasionally provisioned rates. (On most well-configured firewalls, that also means remembering to allow 192.168.100.1:80 in on the external interface, heh.) If you hunt around for your DSL modem model in your search engine of choice, there may be something similar. Either way, I imagine a truck roll will still be your best course of action. Brian J. Conway