Im looking for system clone software anyone know of any software they can recommend
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I use Macrium for backups. You can clone drives with it. At work we use ShadowProtect.
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Clonezilla (FOSS) has worked for me in the past, but might not have the features you need… Works well for making an image of a hard drive.
I haven’t used it in ages though, I have a dock that will copy one hard drive to another direct.
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I use AOMEI backupper at work has the best tools i found, it can also clone SSDs. Clonezilla also works for simple cloning from one hdd to another of equal or greater size
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Continuing on from off topic, I did a mass reset, I also make sure to /flushdns before everything came back up, but still anydesk does not work, I then phoned telkom for what it was worth, he then told me that he sees that we currently don’t have a IP allocated to us, which is strange, since as soon as we go onto the internet he is supposed to see our IP logged, he then did a network reset from his side, and again I switched off everything but again nothing changed, unfortunately I didn’t have time to phone telkom gain to check the line, so will have to check when I have time again, since power is also going off later.
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and like with all things telkom, all I needed to do was wait, as it is now back online and I can work remotely again. Pretty sure this was the time anydesk stopped working yesterday XD
EDIT: But just look now after loadshedding how it is going to be broken again FFS, I can just feel it!!
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Welcome to the world of IT.
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Luckily that did not happen and it is still working after the loadshedding
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How do I, or can I, check to see if there are issues on my network or ISP?
Eg. my speedtest checks out fine, speed is optimal, ping is great, jitter is good, no packet loss. However, when making use of things that use the internet (browsing, YouTube, etc.) I get occasional blips. Like my YT video might load a potato quality and then I have to set it to use 1080p or higher. Websites tend to take a second to load or resolve.
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I have similar issues with YouTube. It’ll say “Auto 720p” but be 360p…
Some days are better than others.
I’d recommend using whatever traceroute/tracert/tracepath command line program you have on your system, and trace youtube.com (for example). Some traceroute programs will let you swap between ICMP, TCP and UDP traffic. It is good to check all available.
Sometimes, even though your destination has nearly perfect pings for your connection, there can still be some problems between point A and point B that will become a little more obvious with those tools.
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mmmm, not sure which tools a MAC has available, but obvious things like, wifi vs cable connection, if possible check if if might be the wifi that is a bit unstable.
Try and run ping 8.8.8.8 -t from command prompt see if there are any spikes to like 150ms
On PC I know you can use task manager to check what resources your PC is using, and an high usage of disk/memory/CPU can cause slow loading on websites, as even though they are “online” they still cache and use system resources in order to load. (I doubt it is this, but its something to test to tick of the list of possibilities
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traceroute youtube.com
traceroute to youtube.com (216.58.223.142), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.3.1 (192.168.3.1) 2.997 ms 2.418 ms 2.144 ms
2 102-182-203-1.ip.afrihost.co.za (102.182.203.1) 3.691 ms 3.840 ms 4.004 ms
3 169-1-21-147.ip.afrihost.co.za (169.1.21.147) 3.931 ms 3.811 ms 4.616 ms
4 169-1-21-131.ip.afrihost.co.za (169.1.21.131) 5.638 ms 5.331 ms 4.982 ms
5 100.127.2.182 (100.127.2.182) 22.990 ms
100.127.2.174 (100.127.2.174) 22.664 ms
100.127.2.182 (100.127.2.182) 23.320 ms
6 72.14.216.130 (72.14.216.130) 23.298 ms 24.222 ms 24.203 ms
7 10.252.249.30 (10.252.249.30) 25.694 ms 23.739 ms 22.838 ms
8 172.253.65.250 (172.253.65.250) 24.745 ms
172.253.65.248 (172.253.65.248) 23.162 ms 22.149 ms
9 172.253.65.255 (172.253.65.255) 23.611 ms
jnb02s01-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.223.142) 23.185 ms
172.253.65.255 (172.253.65.255) 23.502 ms
and
ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=117 time=23.406 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=117 time=22.356 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=117 time=22.355 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=117 time=22.748 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=117 time=23.350 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=117 time=21.849 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=117 time=22.493 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=117 time=22.339 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=8 ttl=117 time=22.238 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=9 ttl=117 time=22.712 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10 ttl=117 time=21.966 ms
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Console (Xbox, using Netflix and YouTube) is wired. Laptop and phones are wireless, of course.
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Does Afrihost still use MTN fibre? I am having problems with whole routes going down on MTN right now…
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Dunno bout dat, I know I’m on the Frogfoot backbone.
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I don’t see any problems with anything from what you’ve posted so far anyway. What DNS server(s) are you using?
Are you pushing out that DNS server via DHCP to your clients, or is the router acting as a DNS server as well?
There were lots of complaints about similar issues a while back, and no one could explain it.
I’d would personally run wireshark as soon as you boot up your PC, load up your browser and hit up some of the problem sites. If they are still problematic, check all the DNS lookups.
From there, response time on the lookups can be determined, and next step could be decided.
Mind you, wireshark can be tricky if you’re not used to getting that deep in networking.
Another thing you could try is a program called iftop. It shows all your connections and how much bandwidth they are using on your laptop. Probably won’t give much info, but it would at least show how fast the buffering of the low quality video is going. I really doubt it is a throughput issue. And it might not even register correctly. The fastest refresh on the stats is 2 seconds, so a burst of content to be buffered would have to take at least that long to know if it reached max throughput.
These are my DNS: 169.1.1.2 and 169.1.1.10
Thanks, I initially just mentioned it to see but I mean it’s not causing any issues, just a minor complaint if anything. I used to be a network and systems admin back in the day, but I been out of that a good while now, so all your terminologies are not completely lost on me.
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Those appear to be Afrihost’s DNS servers, so maybe give cloudfare’s a shot.
1.1.1.1
Cloudflare’s server also supports DNS over HTTPS. Maybe look into that as well. It might resolve a bit slower due to the handshaking, but unless someone along the route is screwing with 1.1.1.1:443 specifically, you should avoid any glaring local DNS issues (assuming Cloudfare is running properly).