Wifi Connection watcher?

[Xander]

I've got a laptop just in that "drops wifi connections sometimes and needs to be rebooted." No other devices in their household drop (allegedly) so I've got it now on my local wifi.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a program that will simply watch the wifi connection and sound a little alert should that connection drop (and maybe a second sound if it were to reconnect).

I'm sure you could come up with some kind of a batch file to loop while connected and use a tiny executable to play a sound. I might even play around with this in AutoIt (haven't touched that since D7 made it big).

Anyway, anyone know of existing stuff?

 

[Martyn]

I used this a while ago for a dropping Ethernet connection.

http://www.pingplotter.com/standard.html

Lots of features to play with.

Just to add a bit more. As you know other users are not always a great source of info. I set mine up to ping the default gateway along with Google to see if the line to the house is dropping off or the connection to the router.

 

[johnrobert]

I wouldn’t waste any time doing this nonsense I would be fixing the core problem
Replace wifi card in laptop I'm sure you have already updated drivers
and done simple fixes.

I had this problem with my laptop put in wifi card from EBay $8 no more problems

 

[Xander]

John, if I leave it sitting in a corner and tell me if it actually *is* dropping a connection or not, that's not wasting any time.

So far, it's got some browser crap on it (one new one "BrowseBurst" was running 25% in the background) and, after a basic cleanup, I'll see about letting it just sit for a few hours with the recommended softwares.

Thanks, Alice & Martyn.

 

[Markverhyden]

I would also run inSSIDer along side whatever other tools you are looking at. You can have it record the signal strength at the same time. For grins I would also test the wired connection.

 

[johnrobert]

Had a computer yesterday it was the most browser infected I have seen for a long time.


Junkware removal tool
Rouge killer
HitmanPro
Combo fix
Malware bytes

Came completely clean, your problem sounds more hardware related

 

[Xander]

Had the laptop on my workbench all day - hasn't disconnected once. It *did* have, however, "BrowseBurst" running 25% CPU. Removed that and a few other minor things and it's been a basic cleanup since.
Her mom's laptop was brought in just for a spring cleaning and it had dozens of little crapwares in it. LOL.