Tata indicom: On average offline for one of every 4 minutes :P .
I’ve written about my internet connection instability worries before… Just to be sure it wasn’t all just in my head, I wrote a simple script a couple of days ago and put it on my shell account at TX0.org to measure my connection satability.
My system is a VAIO laptop; and I have not shut it down for the last 3 days. The modem is now connected to an old UPS. So Ideally, the connection should be always up.
The script running tx0.org is rather simple:
while true
do
date
ping -c 1 -w 2 [mysystem].dyndns.org
sleep 60
done;
As you can see, it pings my home system every minute. I redirect the output to a file and do a quick grep | wc and here’s what I get:
For the last 4193 minutes recorded, the connection has been down for 1037 minutes; a total downtime of 17.28 hours in under 3 days.
This is all while the connection is ‘working’ according to Tata and is non inclusive of the cable problems that occur for a few days every month or so.
Pretty bad eh 
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Take a look here for live results : http://jeevan.tx0.org/showuptime.cgi (
The full ping log is available here: http://jeevan.tx0.org/showpinglog.cgi
I think you should ping more often than 1 min gap as u r pinging from internet to ur home PC. Packet drop can happen due to any choke and u may be counting that as down time of tata indicom.
Guru
hey jeevs,I think u gotta come back to j.p.nagar…..
i think yellin,shoutin nd jammin my head against the wall has made the tata indicom guys to fix the snag(snags to be precise)in the area where i reside…….
Looks like telecom industry is too much for the tata’s to handle……it ll be better for them to concentrate on their steel business….
Hi Guru, you obviously don’t have an Indicom connection
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Even pinging from the internet I should have a pretty low loss rate - I think less than a 0.2% loss rate. It’s difficult to account for that; I think a 0.2% margin of error is acceptable. Besides I don’t want to use up too much hard drive space on my shell host!
In any case, my connection has been comparatively stable over the last week. Just after i put up the util
Hope it lasts!
Hi Nithin, thanks for the visit, dude! I think if I move back to JP Nagar, I would shift back to Airtel
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File a complaint against them in a consumer court… [:)] you have proof of sub-standard service…
So speaks ‘V’ - for vendetta
Put something on your blog! Its been too long!