Monitoring a wireless connection

[Randall]

Does anyone know of a way to monitor a wireless connection -- ie, to log dropped connections, reconnects, that sort of thing? There are utilities to show you the current status of the connection, but I need a paper trail.

I'm having intermittent problems between me and the server at Job #1, and I'm trying to figure out whether it's my connection or the server's that has been less than reliable. Or both, for that matter.

So far my only "canary" is MS Access, which tends to freak out when it loses its connection to the DB on the server.

TIA,

Randall

[johnfl68]

Netstumbler comes to mind:

http://www.netstumbler.com/

Although it does not really give you a paper trail, it does let you look at signal strength, and what other wireless devices may be active on the same channel in the area, which can lead to problems if there is a bunch of traffic on the same channel.

There is also Servers Alive:

http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/

This is general server monitoring software. As I recall you can set it up to ping an address at a time interval, and it would log when this fails and is backup. I can also send you email, text message, etc. to let you know when a server is down and when it is back up. Allows for multiple servers, options, etc. Has a free trial version to download.

Maybe something helpfull for you.

John

[Randall]

Servers Alive might be what I'm looking for. But it occurs to me that making a remote connection to my office PC, opening the database, and waiting to see which one goes down first could tell me something.

Pinging machines could miss a very brief interruption, but the remote connection should go down at the drop of a hat. Might be enough to narrow things down.

If that doesn't work, I'll give Servers Alive a try. :smile:

Randall