Measuring Internet Uptime

My ISP is driving me to drink ( maybe not that horrible of a problem... hmm )

every day i get a disco 2 - 3 times, randomly.

So, to start tracking this annoyance, i was looking for software that just monitored the internet connection for losses, and kept'd a log.

Anyone have any recommendations? Google didnt yield much.

www.dslreports.com

Sign up and use the Line Monitor tool. It is made for this type of thing

" Two geographically distributed (US based) servers ping your IP address(es) once every 10 minutes and keep records .. Get ping and packet loss graphs, to receive weekly email reports of your visible downtime, download historical data to your PC for analysis. Get third-party confirmation of outages! "

every 10 mins is too short, the outages are like 2 - 3 mins at a time

Contact your ISP then? They should be able to tell what is going on and have logs...

May want to troubleshoot a bit more.....narrow down if it's indeed your ISP/WAN, or if it's your local network or router or wireless.

When you say "disconnected"...do you fail to connect to your router? Can test..when you think you're disconnected..can you still log into your routers web admin page?

Maybe your network is running something that bogs down your router.

Or you're running wireless and that drops?

Does your router indeed lose its WAN connection, showing 0.0.0.0 or something else not good for an IP address?

every 10 mins is too short, the outages are like 2 - 3 mins at a time

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I made my own app up sometime ago for helping friends and family troubleshoot issues with their lines, to see if it was there router/cable modem or ISP, you can use it if you want, but its very basic and requires .NET framework.

Link - http://85.17.60.21/NetworkTester.zip

Heres a screenshot of it running


It simply pings the 4 IP address's every 20 seconds and writes the results to a comma delimited text file on your c drive called network-tester.txt. Its pretty basic but ive used it quite a few times with good results.

EDIT - i made a new version of the application, so that the domain names are resolved immediately, so that its no longer blocked with ping errors on DNS lookup.

It's a bit more drastic than you may want to do, but when I want to monitor line quality over time I plug in an old PC running PFSense and use it as my firewall/router. It has a nice line quality monitor ability.

Toytown said:

I made my own app up sometime ago for helping friends and family troubleshoot issues with their lines, to see if it was there router/cable modem or ISP, you can use it if you want, but its very basic and requires .NET framework.

Link - http://85.17.60.21/NetworkTester.zip

Heres a screenshot of it running

It simply pings the 4 IP address's every 20 seconds and writes the results to a comma delimited text file on your c drive called network-tester.txt. Its pretty basic but ive used it quite a few times with good results.

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fantastic im gonna try this

YeOldeStonecat said:

May want to troubleshoot a bit more.....narrow down if it's indeed your ISP/WAN, or if it's your local network or router or wireless.

When you say "disconnected"...do you fail to connect to your router? Can test..when you think you're disconnected..can you still log into your routers web admin page?

Maybe your network is running something that bogs down your router.

Or you're running wireless and that drops?

Does your router indeed lose its WAN connection, showing 0.0.0.0 or something else not good for an IP address?

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The ISP Router goes offline, reboots and comes back online instantly

magik20 said:

" Two geographically distributed (US based) servers ping your IP address(es) once every 10 minutes and keep records .. Get ping and packet loss graphs, to receive weekly email reports of your visible downtime, download historical data to your PC for analysis. Get third-party confirmation of outages! "

every 10 mins is too long to wait , the outages are like 2 - 3 mins at a time

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edit

I was having the same issues with Comcast since Christmas. A few weeks ago my internet was down for ~7 hours and it has been steady since. I think is is because of the 50mg upgrade in my area.