found it… ill repeat myself from the rambling below, don’t… DON’T ping any server 1000 times in 35ms like suggested in the network pinger… i think that was the last one i used… not sure…
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https://www.addictivetips.com/net-admin/best-ping-tools/
ramblings and reasons - venture at the risk of your sanity.
there are a wide range from tons of different companies, often years go by between i use them so i end up using a new one each time, they basically just ping an online stable server or ping your ddns name to resolve your ip address and then log it…
most often i just end up using a basic ping and let it run for a few hours maybe a day or two, which is usually more than enough to get an idea of what the problem is… ofc one has to pick a stable online server and one that doesn’t mind, because it does eat a bit into their network iops to be pinging them every second or more, i usually just use the default, see if it drops packets at a concerning rate.
@Alexey doesn’t uptime robot only check every 5 minutes or so? i seem to remember somebody saying that… but haven’t used it so pretty clue less
@NS1
i usually just ping some semi local server… i suppose sustained ping doesn’t take as much network resources as it did once… so maybe you can get away with google.com… but you also want and accurate ping that is the true speed and google is pretty high traffic but also usually located nearby …
looked for some good options for software, but found mostly cloud based online platforms, which will rarely do the network testing to the degree of accuracy one might want for storj especially since the online score went live and can be insanely accurate, my node i calculated got a audit about every minute on an avg day with in the last couple of weeks.
and that would mean busy days might be 5-10 times that, taking it into the second ranges or so i would expect … and i think i got a lot more audits in the past during high traffic, but not 100% sure.
thus verifying that the connection is stable at those time scales can be difficult without sending packets every second or so…
can’t find anything useful pretty sure i found a nice freeware one last time that would allow me to ping 8 different servers every second and keep track of it for days… looked through what stuff i have but cannot seem to find it… maybe it wasn’t as good as i remember and it got deleted.
i really like just using ping or ping -t if you are on windows
then ctl+c to stop i on either linux, freebsd and windows ,i think…
and should give you a brief description of how many failed, but people don’t like getting their server spammed with ping’s ofc
so maybe thats why it’s more difficult to find these days, or the cloud platforms are just better… stuff like it always seems to change so much every few years, i almost stopped saving the programs…
does really annoy me i cannot find a good one…
finally dug up the right name
ping tools or ping utility
i think i used something like the one named network pinger the last time, and maybe the 1500$ nr 1 14day trial version, but those types tend to require a manual to use often…
and don’t do as they suggest in the notes of network pinger and send 1000 pings in 35ms continuously
thats like cyber terror or whatever… but i think every second or two is acceptable, i cannot assure you the other side agree’s tho, so be mindful of that… also slower settings may work for discovering a problem, but when in the seconds range you can see much more clearly if stuff works or not…
some packets will be dropped from time to time, i think the avg is like 0.25% so like 1 in 400
is normal… but it might not show up at all which means it works perfectly… and then if you get high variation in latency… the time it takes for the network packet to go out hit the server and for a response to come back… might just be one way time… i forget… not really important…
ping latency should be 10-15 sec locally on fiber, maybe 45-50 on DSL cable type stuff locally / nationally… and then across the atlantic its like 250ms to maybe 450ms maybe even worse…
usually microsoft.com, google.com stuff like that might work… but you will need a consistent low ping for it to be useful… and low is relative to your connection… but shouldn’t be worse than 100ms but the other end needs to be able to respond unencumbered also… pinging a slow server will get you a slow response…
if i ping google.com i get 15ms which is about what i would expect… really the internet tech and your geographical location can affect that a ton…
well enough rambling, hope you find it useful…
ill move the link to the top for convenience, in case you don’t make it this far…
congrats you made it…