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- Bebo posed the question of whether PingER can identify changes in Internet responsiveness as measured by PingER as a result of the impact of the Covid-19 virus.
- The first attempts looking et PingER statistics and see if there were any noticeable changes in performance attributable to Covid-19 interventions (e.g. shutting down schools, social distancing, gathering cancellations, lockdowns), were not very successful (see PingER and COVID-19). See https://covid19-interventions.com/ for interventions in European, and some Asian countries.
- Another attempt to correlate the impacts might be to use a tool such as Google Motion Charts to look for correlations between say Covid-19 cases (cases, hospital admissions, deaths etc) and PingER metrics as a function of time, by country, continent, plus population or density of population. The idea is that as Covid-19 cases pass say 100, the country will impose interventions such as school closing, social distancing etc. which will change the usage patterns of the Internet which may have noticeable impacts on the PingER measurements.
- Unfortunately Google Motion metrics relies on Flash and is no longer supported .
- A possible alternative is Charta.ca
- I have therefore put together a Perl script (chart-covid.pl) to take daily PingER metrics for the last 120 days together with up-to-date raw data on the coronavirus from the Johns HopkinsUniversity GitHub site: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19, for various countries with their population, area, population density and cast the data in a format suitable for Charta.ca.
- There is a web page I put together on how to use Charta.ca at Using Chart.ca.
- There is an example at https://charteca.blob.core.windows.net/pubs/3Z3qcBXqCT9B3WHz
- Instead of using Covid-19 confirmed cases, it might be good to use the Unacast cell phone location data to get a measure of how people are social distancing. I have sent them two emails but no response.
- Discussion:
Umar
State of MAs.
Host | State | last seen | Status |
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pinger.nchc.org.tw | Intermittent problems starting 11/9/2019, it is not pingable starting 11/12/2019. Fixed 3/24/2020. | ||
pinger.rmutsv.ac.th | Unable to gather data since November 13, 2019. Host is pingable. Sent email to chaisit.c@rmutsv.ac.th 3/26/2020. No response by 4/13/2020 | ||
pinger.gcwuf.edu.pk | Unable to gather data since 3/31/2020, host is not pingable. Email sent to Saqib 4/13/2020 | 3/31/2020 | |
pinger.vu.edu.pk | Unable to gather data since 29th August, 2019. The host is pingable. Emailed Wajahat 11/3/2019. Wajahat responded 11/11/2019 "Anything improved?". Les responded they are still not working with more details and suggesting we focus on vu. 11/20/2019 Les asks if there is an update? Wajanat responded 11/20/2019 "These guys are not responding. We are trying to contact them. Already tried multiple times." This just applies to vu. Wajahat recommends we keep trying to gather data. I have turned off the warnings. Kiran fixed it 2/3/2020 by restoring the pinger.xml file following email instructions from Les | 8/28/2019 | Fixed 2/3/2020. |
comsatsswl.seecs.edu.pk | Unable to gather data since 3/26/20210, hoast not pingable. Disabled by Cottrell 4/13/2020. | ||
monitor.seecs.edu.pk | No data since 10/29/2019, host is pingable email to Wajahat 11/7/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Host not pingable sent email to Kiran and Wajahat 3/3/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. | 10/27/2019 | |
maggie2.seecs.edu.pk | No data since 11/4/2019, host is pingable email to Wajahat 11/2/2019, 11/20/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Host no longer pingable, sent email to Kiran and Wajahat 3/3/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. | ||
pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk | Something amiss since April 2019 when it dropped from monitoring over 150 targets down to 4. There is nothing in <BeaconsList>, all the hosts it attempts to monitor are in the locally manually maintained <NodeList>. Does not ping by name. Email sent 11/7/2019, and again 11/20/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. |
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