On 7/12/2010, at 8:51 AM, Mauricio Freitas wrote:
Hello there
Got a suggestion from a friend this weekend and put together a simple page where users can submit faults, and a status page report listing the last 72 hours:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/FaultByISP.asp
We will be putting some styling on that page and a Google Map later today.
The idea is to give users an idea if they are experiencing some unique fault, or is something spread. For operators it should work as an early warning sign – seeing many people don’t even bother calling help desks anymore due to the long waiting times, or just post on forums instead (and why no one ever look at their wiring or DNS configuration before complaining?)
Obviously ISPs could at some point (if this actually works) get more information from us, such as contact details to help determine faults, or.
Anyway, suggestions and ideas welcome…
For things like speed issues and DNS problems, can you develop a java (?) app that can do some analysis and report that? Things like intl. speed vs. domestic speed at a certain time would be more useful than "1 international speed problem". You should even be able to make such code do simple diagnosis of mail problems, etc. etc. Epitero gives much of this information to ISPs already, for what its worth. -- Nathan Ward