On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:33:03 -0400 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 18 October 2025 04:24:55 am Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:06:37 -0400 > > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The modem itself will probably have a 'ping' option, > > I don't see one in there. I log into it in my browser and the whole > UI is graphical, with menus and such. There's often a 'diagnostic' page which usually just has ping, but may occasionally have other things. Here's a typical diagnostic set: https://www.tp-link.com/us/configuration-guides/diagnosing_the_device_network/ > > > What about ping and traceroute from a wifi client? What do you get > > if you try to trace a route to the server? > > Phone and tablet are both android, which tends to not provide that > kind of tools. I have some laptops here I could probably get going > and maybe use one of them to test this out. A live CD is probably the quickest option here. If you have to download it, go for the last Knoppix available, which is 2021 but if the laptop is at least that old, should be fine. It's a tweaked Debian sid optimised for testing purposes. https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html > You might want to try this, which provides a reasonable Linux environment on Android (which is basically Linux underneath anyway): https://termux.dev/en/ -- Joe
