Network diagnostics for the end user

Fri Jun 21 04:47:04 UTC 2013

On 20/06/13 17:45, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> Are there any tools out there that we could give to our end users to help
> diagnose network problems? We get a lot of "the Internet is slow" support
> calls and it would be helpful if we had something that would run on the end
> user's computer and help characterize the problem. We have central
> monitoring system of course but that doesn't always give a complete
> picture, as the problem could always be on the end user's computer - slow
> hard drive, not enough memory, wrong name servers, etc.

I personally like ICSI Netalyzr for identifying gross issues.

http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/

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