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Heedyheed · 17-07-2006, 18:44

Is it my imagination, or is the number of short breaks in service on the increase? I'm seeing more and more such instances - usually lasting about 10 minutes. I've had at least one a day during the last week or so. It's just happened again between about 18:20 and 18:30. During that time I couldn't ping bbc.co.uk or any of the NTL servers that usually respond. Walk away from the PC and come back some time later usually fixes it - no modem reboot, no PC reboot, no close and re-open IE - it just goes away by itself. On the few occasions where I have rebooted the modem (Terayon 210), the cable light flashes slowly for ages, whereas the slow flash sequence after reboot usually lasts about 30 seconds.

Are there any free tools that will keep an eye on network connectivity in the background and log any short-term loss of connection. I'd like to start to collect some stats that I can use to back a complaint to NTL.

Mike

P.S. ...And just to prove the point it has just done it again between about 18:50 and 18:55. During that time I couldn't even ping NTLs DNS servers on 192.168.4.100 and 192.168.8.100.

17-07-2006, 18:44	#1
Heedyheed Inactive Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bedfordshire Posts: 63	Regular 10 minute glitches Is it my imagination, or is the number of short breaks in service on the increase? I'm seeing more and more such instances - usually lasting about 10 minutes. I've had at least one a day during the last week or so. It's just happened again between about 18:20 and 18:30. During that time I couldn't ping bbc.co.uk or any of the NTL servers that usually respond. Walk away from the PC and come back some time later usually fixes it - no modem reboot, no PC reboot, no close and re-open IE - it just goes away by itself. On the few occasions where I have rebooted the modem (Terayon 210), the cable light flashes slowly for ages, whereas the slow flash sequence after reboot usually lasts about 30 seconds. Are there any free tools that will keep an eye on network connectivity in the background and log any short-term loss of connection. I'd like to start to collect some stats that I can use to back a complaint to NTL. Mike P.S. ...And just to prove the point it has just done it again between about 18:50 and 18:55. During that time I couldn't even ping NTLs DNS servers on 192.168.4.100 and 192.168.8.100.