On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:17:09PM +0100, Damian Gerow wrote: > On Wed 08/10/29 08:42, "rgb" rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] net wrote: > > Interesting numbers. How are you collecting this data? I've never tried > > or even known that I could collect information from my DSL modem. I don't > > know if it makes any difference, but I've got ethernet over ATM rather than > > PPPoE. It is the same modem, but configured slightly differently. I've never seen > > a configuration or statistics interface for any of my DSL modems. > > It doesn't so much matter what the underlying technology is. What's more important is whether or not your modem supports the gathering of statistics. It most likely does. I just had no information about it and didn't occur to me to look for hacks. > Most modern modems run an SNMP stack, which makes things significantly easier. However, even if it has a telnet/web interface that presents these statistics, expect+cron would make a great starting point for scraping this information from console/web output. Yup. > > I'm currently on Taksavvy, but have previously been on CIA, IGS, > > iStop, BellNexxia, all on the same type of service. The Teksavvy line is on a > > dry loop. > > It's technically all the same DSL service, provided by BellNexxia. You're just changing the routing of your IP packets to go through a different ISP. True. I was just referring to the original grandfathered Bell Sympatico RADSL 1.1/2.2Mbps without PPPoE since any traceroute reported transitting BellNexia routers. > - Damian slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________