Checking internet connection without a winbox

[Guillermo Garron]

On 7/16/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/07/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I am sorry you are still having this problem. I thought you had already
> > found a solution. Maybe its the bits are going right to left and not
> > left to right (sorry a private joke related to Dotan being in Israel)
>
> Actually the router modem had abducted 3 bits and injured 7 more- the
> router is retaliating.
>
> > I just tried something that might help. I pinged my router. No packets
> > lost.  If you do that you could eliminate traffic from your machine to
> > the router. Then as was suggested a combination of ping and traceroute
> > should pinpoint where on the route trace the packets are beginning to be
> > lost. It seems to me that would localize the problem.
>
> I had run mtr many times, the router itself does have some loss, as do
> other nodes in the system. So I'd like to connect the machine directly
> to the router, but then I can't dial in to the ISP. Maybe someone here
> could advise me on how to do that? This is my dial-in connection
> information, taken from the routers' control panel:
> WAN Type: L2TP
> IP Mode: Dynamic IP Address
> Server IP Address: Lns4.actcom.net.il
> L2TP Account: etykot at CActcom
> L2TP Password: SecretPassword

Did you checked your half/full duplex configurations on the router, your PC
and your LAN switch?
you should not loose packet on your own network.


Windows machines can dial in using the ISP's dialer, or using the
> built-in windows dialer.
>
> > As an OT comment I was sorry to hear Haifa was now being attacked. I
> > hope that has not impacted your life too much. I read a story that there
> > is a Hasidic sect in Jerusalem that each night goes out on "Hitbodadut"
> > to be alone to scream. That is want I want to do when I think of the
> > situation is your region of the world at this time.
>
> Well, if I am called up for service then I won't have to think about
> packet loss for a few weeks. Wait- explosions-gotta go....
>
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