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Since the internet connection in our house does break down from time to time I set up a little experiment:
For the last two month, one of my machines is pinging google.com on an half-hourly basis. One measurement consists of 50 pings.
I now calculated the mean percentage of packets lost for each hour of the day:
My questions:
- Could this peak in the evening be caused by choosing google.com as the ping destination?
- Would you recommend using an other destination and which?
- Does this indicate that something is wrong with my connection?
- What would be a better strategy to measure where exactly the problem in our internet connection is? Our ISP tells us it is working fine so I try to aggregate some proof...
Regards!
Edit: I forgot to mention that the machine is directly connected to the router (no WiFi). And the router is pinged as well, with no packet loss at all.
What exactly do you mean by " internet connection in our house does break down from time to time"? If "break down" means "stop working", tracking packet loss when it does work is unlikely to tell you anything useful. – Isaac Rabinovitch – 2013-03-12T23:52:10.797
That's right, but my interest is in when does it break down, and how often/how long. – Dirk – 2013-03-13T09:25:05.617