What is the best way to determine if TBN is down?

[MossRoad]

I remember you guys posting pictures of the fires near your location a few years ago. Yikes!

 

[Industrial Toys]

I realize my reliance on the Internet has become quite critical, in my mind only. I wish there was a application that could run in the background that could tell you at any given time, what the issue is, when the Internet stops working. My connection stopped working earlier today, and it appeared to be a cable (in the end), but you don't know if the problem is on your desk, a dozen feet away, in my case five hundred feet away, twenty miles away or a few thousand miles away!

No point ripping apart my LAN if the problem is with my ISP.

 

[aczlan]

I realize my reliance on the Internet has become quite critical, in my mind only. I wish there was a application that could run in the background that could tell you at any given time, what the issue is, when the Internet stops working. My connection stopped working earlier today, and it appeared to be a cable (in the end), but you don't know if the problem is on your desk, a dozen feet away, in my case five hundred feet away, twenty miles away or a few thousand miles away!

No point ripping apart my LAN if the problem is with my ISP.

Windows will tell you that, not sure if a Mac will and Linux probbaly doesn't.

Aaron Z

 

[Industrial Toys]

Really? My (probably) explorer tells me it's this that or the other other thing. I'm actually surprised it doesn't tell me, my computer might not be plugged in.

 

[aczlan]

Really? My (probably) explorer tells me it's this that or the other other thing. I'm actually surprised it doesn't tell me, my computer might not be plugged in.

Open Network and Sharing Center in Windows 7 or higher and it will tell you if it has a connection to your LAN, and if it can get from there to the internet.
See: Guide to Network and Sharing Center in Windows 7, 8, 1

Aaron Z

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's like being lost in the woods and being told, you are still breathing

I was in the grocery store tonight looking at some Starbucks coffee on sale. No information as to the regular price. A store person, could not answer that question (little surprise that I actually found one, if that was the outcome). A higher (probably some kind of POS team leader) couldn't help either but offered to check the computer. Came back five minutes later to say, he could not get the regular selling price.

What a useless information technology system that is in place! Just like Apple, Microsoft or whatever. Useless and a total waste of time and money.

IF this level of technology stupidity continues, what possible hope is there for future generations?

 

[MossRoad]

If you really want to know what's going on with your connection to the internet, or a specific website, well, you're going to have to learn to use the tools that are out there and available. You sound like you want to be able to push a button and get all the answers, like a cashier at McDonalds that just pushes the cheeseburger button on the cash register rather than having to do the work of adding up the prices and figuring the change.

Write yourself a script for some of the command line tools that are out there, like pathping, ping, tracert, etc... and keep a link on your desktop to your script. Then, when there's a network burp, just click your link and satisfy your curiosity.

pathping | Microsoft Docs

 

[plowhog]

like a cashier at McDonalds that just pushes the cheeseburger button on the cash register

I was at a commercial airport waiting for a flight. The sign at the food counter said: "Popcorn .90 cents" I got a bag of popcorn, and the cashier began looking for the cash register key with the picture of popcorn on it. Could not find it. I said: "the sign says ninety cents." No good. Cashier only knew how to press the picture keys. Cashier called for the manager, who arrived and keyed in the price of ninety cents. All this while the line behind me grew in size.