VPN Connect continually drops

gjacobse

@Dashrender said:

So it's fixed? after you applied updates?

Not updated yet. I lost Internet and thus connection to that computer. About to apply it now.

Dashrender

Surface's have had network problems pretty much since the beginning.

gjacobse

Installing the updates now...

scottalanmiller

@gjacobse said:

@Dashrender

Yes a Surface

Problem identified.

gjacobse

@scottalanmiller said:

@gjacobse said:

@Dashrender

Yes a Surface

Problem identified.

For Sales people - who travel - what would you suggest that is better? They have about 15 Surface units as it is now.

Minion Queen

To be noted that they have 15 or so and only 1 has this issue. So it is not just a Surface blanket issue.

scottalanmiller

@gjacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@gjacobse said:

@Dashrender

Yes a Surface

Problem identified.

For Sales people - who travel - what would you suggest that is better? They have about 15 Surface units as it is now.

Don't know what they are using it for. I've never found the Surface to be a good tool, too many bugs and problems both software and hardware. It might seem neat, but it still comes across as a toy to me.

coliver

Ugh... there was an update not too long ago that caused the wireless to be completely unreliable. It was fixed the following month with a patch. Looks like this Surface missed that patch.

gjacobse

@coliver said:

Ugh... there was an update not too long ago that caused the wireless to be completely unreliable. It was fixed the following month with a patch. Looks like this Surface missed that patch.

Possible... even with this update,.. there seems to be Windows Update issues.

This is the error I have seen on this one,.. and I think others..

coliver

@gjacobse said:

@coliver said:

Ugh... there was an update not too long ago that caused the wireless to be completely unreliable. It was fixed the following month with a patch. Looks like this Surface missed that patch.

Possible... even with this update,.. there seems to be Windows Update issues.

This is the error I have seen on this one,.. and I think others..

Are they tied into WSUS somehow?

dafyre

@coliver said:

@gjacobse said:

@coliver said:

Ugh... there was an update not too long ago that caused the wireless to be completely unreliable. It was fixed the following month with a patch. Looks like this Surface missed that patch.

Possible... even with this update,.. there seems to be Windows Update issues.

This is the error I have seen on this one,.. and I think others..

Are they tied into WSUS somehow?

Reboot it and give it another go.

gjacobse

Just got word - he's already been kicked out.

Dashrender

I have had really good luck with the Fixit Tool for Windows Update.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/sus/2009/05/21/a-quick-fix-for-windows-update-client-issues/

gjacobse

Issue now seems to be on another system as well.....

Dashrender

@gjacobse said:

Issue now seems to be on another system as well.....

Also a Surface?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@gjacobse said:

Issue now seems to be on another system as well.....

Also a Surface?

I'm not saying a word.

gjacobse

Okay - so lets go with a ping test,

I know I can do a Ping (IP) 0- but can you time stamp it so that if an event occurred?

Jason

For us issues like this are usually that of the ISP, so it's usually on the user to contact their ISP. Some are willing to fix it, some aren't.

Jason

@gjacobse said:

Okay - so lets go with a ping test,

I know I can do a Ping (IP) 0- but can you time stamp it so that if an event occurred?

https://code.google.com/archive/p/internetconnectivitymonitor/

coliver

@Martin9700 to the rescue.

[CmdletBinding()]
Param (
	[int32]$Count = 5,
	
	[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
	[String[]]$Computer = "mftestwin7",
	
	[string]$LogPath = "c:\pinglog\pinglog.csv"
)

$Ping = @()
#Test if path exists, if not, create it
If (-not (Test-Path (Split-Path $LogPath) -PathType Container))
{   Write-Verbose "Folder doesn't exist $(Split-Path $LogPath), creating..."
	New-Item (Split-Path $LogPath) -ItemType Directory | Out-Null
}

#Test if log file exists, if not seed it with a header row
If (-not (Test-Path $LogPath))
{   Write-Verbose "Log file doesn't exist: $($LogPath), creating..."
	Add-Content -Value '"TimeStamp","Source","Destination","IPV4Address","Status","ResponseTime"' -Path $LogPath
}

#Log collection loop
Write-Verbose "Beginning Ping monitoring of $Comptuer for $Count tries:"
While ($Count -gt 0)
{   $Ping = Get-WmiObject Win32_PingStatus -Filter "Address = '$Computer'" | Select @{Label="TimeStamp";Expression={Get-Date}},@{Label="Source";Expression={ $_.__Server }},@{Label="Destination";Expression={ $_.Address }},IPv4Address,@{Label="Status";Expression={ If ($_.StatusCode -ne 0) {"Failed"} Else {""}}},ResponseTime
	$Result = $Ping | Select TimeStamp,Source,Destination,IPv4Address,Status,ResponseTime | ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation
	$Result[1] | Add-Content -Path $LogPath
	Write-verbose ($Ping | Select TimeStamp,Source,Destination,IPv4Address,Status,ResponseTime | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-String)
	$Count --
	Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}

Run it like this:

.\Get-PingMonitor.ps1 -count 9999 -path c:\pinglog\pinglog.csv -computer "www.thesurlyadmin.com"