> A couple of years ago I needed to monitor a broadband connection
> remotely and I found a wonderful, web-based service that let me set up
> an account, specify the IP address and it pinged the router every few
> seconds. Logging on to the site gave lots of graphical stats and I was
> emailed a report every day. Sadly I have lost the details and need to do
> some more monitoring so can anyone point me towards any such services.
How about something like "DynDNS Updater" from
http://www.kanasolution.com/
While it might not send a daily report, it does log to file, so this
could be emailed - it appears as though you can tell it to scan at
minute intervals (from 1 to whatever) only unfortunately.