On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 12:22:49 +0000 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk allegedly wrote:
What is the best way to test the reliability of an Internet connection?
I am getting lots of dropouts on things like Zoom meetings or Netflix, but a speed test is always healthy (typically close to 200Mbps on my Virgin connection). But speed isn't everything - a stop-start connection with lots of gaps can still get a high average speed.
Problem is I don't even know what to search for!
Ideally a simple "here's a rating" tool but happy to get my hands dirty if needed, eg if there are things I could monitor with Wireshark or whatever.
I have an important meeting tomorrow and at the moment I'm going to struggle to take part! --
Mark
As Jonathan's reply suggests, you should probably be looking at latency problems. But smokeping drags in a lot of other dependencies (including apache) which you may not want.
Try the simple approach first and use ping, traceroute etc to see if there are any obvious slow spots in the network paths. A good alternative to straight ping is "oping" and its ncurses front end "noping". noping highlights any rtts it deems "aberrant".
If you are interestred in the latency of traffic to/from a webserver then try httping (which also has a nice ncurses front end.
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