[Wlug] DSL testing

[Brian J. Conway]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:57:42 -0400 (EDT)
Keith Wright <kwright at 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