If you have a Raspberry Pi hanging around, I use mine to monitor my internet connection using smokeping based on this article: https://votecharlie.com/blog/2016/04/network-monitoring-with-raspberry-pi-and-smokeping.html. I decided on the PI as it means I don't need to have a PC turned on all the time. (As an aside, the Pi also downloads my solar PV data ever 5 minutes and uploads it to PV output).
You end up with graphs showing latency, and dropouts: [image: image.png] On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 07:54, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Folks, my 2 year old NBN connection takes 5 minute breaks multiple times a > day, every day. The Internet connection randomly dies, the lights on the > Arris black box go out and slowly come back, then it's going again. Several > months ago I called Telstra who ran "tests" and declared it would be fixed. > > I wrote a tiny command line program that uses the NetworkChange > NetworkAvailabilityChanged event to log changes, but it doesn't work, no > events are ever raised even though I can see the modem lights flashing. The > class > documentation > <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.networkinformation.networkchange.networkavailabilitychanged?view=netframework-4.8> > hints it does what I want, but there must be other adapters like the VMWare > ones that are ruining my expectations. > > Is there some other way of easily monitoring up/down of the NBN > connection? Event log? Some utility program? Something I can write? > Something in the modem or switch? Anything? > > *Greg K* >
