jmnsouthpaw

Rev:  Take a look at this Perl script (on my googledrive).  'Tis a bit of a hack (but not totally so ).

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Note that it is a unix text file (with <LF> line separators, not <CR><LF>)...not suitable for DOS.

It runs fine under Cygwin, and should be okay for Linux.  It may require downloading libwww-perl from CPAN or Cywgin.

 

I can be reached at my-username-on-this-forum @gmail.com

 

jmn

 

it's just a simple #!/bin/ash script, so nothing to write home about.

It gets the ping time to local server, and times downloading a file using wget.

It's only accurate to the second, so it has its drawbacks.

 

here's a summary: ...

 

Thanks, Rev.  I'm on Win7 with Cygwin, so I can likely obtain a wget package.  But I also have perl, so I can probably do something with LWP::Simple as well.

Hi all,

I've since written a simple cgi script to just download and time a file from a nearby host every minute.  It also tests ping, and logs it all to a datalog.  It's crude, but it will at least let me know the times and frequency of the speed issues.

 

Care to share that script?