Need to do a sustained connectivity test, need recommendation for simple procedure. - Lemmy.World
Hey all, This is probably a very easy one for folks here. It’s been quite some
time since I’ve done anything professionally but I was for a long time.
Basically, for a while, my systems have experienced intermittent issue that for
approximately 30 seconds, can’t get any WAN activity. I can still communicate
with other systems within my network. - this is a home situation. The only thing
that changed sort of around when this started was I configured my two access
points as a mesh - pseudo, since they’re not actually mesh technically. Like, I
just made same SSIDs, but different channels. This way I could get around and my
devices would hop. And it’s worked nicely. Only issue has been occasionally a
device tries to hang on desperately which I know is like the most common
problem, but I am gonna play with signal strength if the APs support modifying
that. Anyway, I’m getting off topic. But yeah, that was the only thing that
changed but I really think it’s just a coincidence. It’s definitely not the wifi
itself because the problem occurred on a wired machine as well. My setup is I
have the cable device in bridge mode and I have a Sonicwall as my router. I also
have a site-to-site VPN with another Sonicwall at a remote location for a
variety of purposes. That setup has been on and stable for like 15 years almost,
and it’s fine. So, really my first idea is I want to run software that can
continually test the connection for like 12 hours, and log when the connection
goes down and for how long. Obviously I thought of just running a ping, but I
wanted to know if there’s anything that will try varying destinations over time,
and track the results so I can analyze for more than just how long and when.
Also I don’t know if some servers might misconstrue a persistent ping for many
hours as a possible DDoS bot and knock me off, so I figured varying the
destination has the added benefit of making sure the test is as reliable as
possible. If I’m gonna figure out what’s wrong, and if it’s the cable device I
want to be able to just tell level 2 support my results so they’ll just swap it
out quickly. Anyway, sorry for long post but I imagine they come much longer
here sometimes. If anyone has ideas as far as having seen this kind of thing,
and also if there’s any FOSS software I could run to test and analyze. I prefer
something easy please :-). I’d like to run the tests on two systems concurrently
to see how they compare. I’ve got a windows 7 machine and a Linux machine. The
Linux is on WiFi and the Win is wired. Also if this doesn’t belong here, I
apologize; it looked kosher according to the sidebar. Thanks folks. P.S. oooh
also, if there’s an app for Android that can join the test as well, I’d love
that. I have piles of Android devices so I would like to see how they fair, as
well.
