Re: home network monitoring and shaping

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 02/12/2013 02:07 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
> Someone created an application for uverse users that goes into the gateway and pulls relevant information. The information (link 
> retrain, for example) is then color coded for caution and out of range. The application is called up real time, not something peddled 
> by at&t to show how "great" your connection is. People unfortunately believe a speed test is a reliable way to measure 
> a connection quality. There may be utilities out there like this that look at signal levels and statistics to tell the user their 
> connection blows. I believe the uvrealtime application actually shows the provider sending resets as a deterrent for using bit 
> torrent.

It would be nice for such a thing to tell me that my ISP connection is
having trouble too, but I'm mostly interested in understanding the things
that are nominally under my control on my home network. It seems that
most routers have (gratuitous?) apps these day, but given the awfulness
of their web UI's and their configurability, I don't have much hope that
they do what I want.

Mike