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In article <sph.802710203@doc.ic.ac.uk>,
sph@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon Hughes) wrote:

> How do all you net-folks out there know what speed your modem is operating
> at, what the packet loss is like etc.?  I can get a character per second
> measurement from, say, netscape or fetch but that's just about the only
> diagnostic I can find for my internet connection.

Some modems display connection information on LED/LC displays and some 
internal modems may come with software that could track this sort of 
information (possibly the GeoPort stuff may have some way of tracking as 
well.) So far as I can see though there is no easy way to get this state 
data when you have a modem attached by a serial cable.  There is no 
recognised way for the modem to communicate, in band, with the serial 
port software telling it state changes. It may be your LAP software will 
allow you to do this manually though. I use VersaTerm SLIP and that 
allows you to open a terminal window and view the raw connection data - 
you can then type a <pause>+++<pause> and get the modem into command mode 
and query it with an "ati6".

-Alan.


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       -- Anon.

In article <sph.802710203@doc.ic.ac.uk>,
sph@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon Hughes) wrote:

>How do all you net-folks out there know what speed your modem is operating
>at, what the packet loss is like etc.?  I can get a character per second
>measurement from, say, netscape or fetch but that's just about the only
>diagnostic I can find for my internet connection.
>
>My set-up includes a Mac Performa 630 and a USR Sportster Mac&Fax V.34.  My
>service provider, in case it's relevant, is demon (a UK provider).  Any help
>will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

I use TCP Monitor for modem speed -- that displays current speeds
graphically
and gives a pretty accurate readout when compared with Anarchie or
Netscape,
and TCP Watcher for checking packet loss, resends, etc. etc. There is also
a patch to PPP Config that lets you know what speed your modem connects
to Demon at.

All this good stuff is on Demon's FTP site.

--
peter@petermc.demon.co.uk 							                "Cool as Fuck!"

In article <sph.802710203@doc.ic.ac.uk> sph@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon Hughes) writes:
>
>How do all you net-folks out there know what speed your modem is operating
>at, what the packet loss is like etc.?

MacTCP Monitor from ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mac/MacTCP/ will help.
-- 
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http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~paola/guests/thebeast/
"Reality is anything you can get away with"

In article <jxc-1906950509420001@ppp5.ausom.oz.au>,
jxc@ausom.oz.au (Jason Chuen) wrote:

>peter@petermc.demon.co.uk (Peter McDermott) wrote:
>
>> I use TCP Monitor for modem speed -- that displays current speeds
>> graphically
>> and gives a pretty accurate readout when compared with Anarchie or
>> Netscape,
>> and TCP Watcher for checking packet loss, resends, etc. etc. There is also
>> a patch to PPP Config that lets you know what speed your modem connects
>> to Demon at.
>> 
>> All this good stuff is on Demon's FTP site.
>
>This sounds really good, except that I can't access ftp.demon.co.uk
>because it insists on reverse DNS mapping which isn't configured properly
>for us yet. Archie returns nothing, so is there another site where we can
>get this?

Sure -- it's all available at info-mac (in the comm directory, probably
under TCP or MacTCP)

I'm sure there's an Aussie Info-Mac as well?

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