On August 29 at noon EDT, we hosted a webinar on how to monitor a WiFi network with a Raspberry Pi. The goal of this webinar was to share what we’ve learned so that you can get up to speed and either implement your own custom WiFi monitoring solution or just…
I have done iPerf performance comparisons in the past between several well known single board computers (SBCs), which you can see here, and more recently, here. The most popular SBC is the Raspberry Pi, but its limitation is that it has a 10/100 interface, and the maximum traffic it can…
Enterprise networks are evolving at a fast pace, and with them, so are network monitoring techniques. If you are monitoring your network with an SNMP collector, you have already realized that it’s not enough to detect and troubleshoot problems experienced by the end-users. You can read more about how the…
On Thursday, February 23rd, I will present at the WirelessLAN Professional Conference on how to Turn your Odroids or Raspberry Pis into Remote WiFi Monitoring Sensors. This is part of the WLPC TEN talk series, in which presenters have ten minutes for their talks. It takes less than ten minutes…
Wireless is connecting the world. 802.11 networks are not just providing connectivity to our laptops and smartphones, but are also allowing us to interact with IoT devices like refrigerators, light bulbs, and cars. When complemented with Internet access, wireless connectivity is, in the end, a utility, a service that is…
A couple of months ago I blogged about using Raspberry Pi’s as home network monitoring agents. The idea was to collect data from home networks and compare the performance of different ISP’s as well as detect outages and get notified about them. Guess what? There is nothing new under the…
The Raspberry Pi platform has been established as a reliable and, most importantly, low-cost and easy-to-use Linux box. At its launch, nobody could imagine that so many people, from tinkerers to professionals, would find use for it. In the networking space, it didn’t take a long for engineers to put…
There are more than 8 million Raspberry Pis around the world, and at least a million in the US (I don’t have numbers, but I think this is a safe assumption). In a previous post, I described how to use a Raspberry Pi to monitor your parents’ home network. But…
It’s been four years since the release of the Raspberry Pi platform, and the excitement for each new version hasn’t diminished! Two weeks ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the release of the Raspberry Pi 3. The most notable upgrades are the on-board WiFi and Bluetooth support, as well as…
Disclaimer: As of 2/28/18, the NetBeez ‘Free Plan’ has been replaced with a 30-day free trial. When you troubleshoot your network, Ping, DNS, HTTP, and Traceroute are the simplest and probably the most useful tests you could use. For example, if you run these tests on google.com and all of…