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[M100C]

All,
I have been having nearly daily service interruptions with Comcast.
They've had a technician to my house twice (when the service was
working), and when I call in for service, they note that they cannot
see my modem. They have downplayed the downtime. Here is my
question:

Is there a way to monitor the availablity of service using a program
running on one of my computers?

Thanks,
Chris

[Bill M.]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:20:30 -0700 (PDT), M100C <clbeltz@gmail.com>
wrote:

>All,
>I have been having nearly daily service interruptions with Comcast.
>They've had a technician to my house twice (when the service was
>working), and when I call in for service, they note that they cannot
>see my modem. They have downplayed the downtime. Here is my
>question:
>
>Is there a way to monitor the availablity of service using a program
>running on one of my computers?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris

I had a similar problem in 2005 and I used a program called
PingPlotter to graphically show periods of downtime, as in time and
duration. The next Tech that showed up seemed impressed, but who
knows.

I don't think it helped him find and repair the problem, (he did that
on his own), but it did seem to help him understand that there was
indeed a problem, which is usually the biggest hurdle.

--
Bill