Test network stability

[JuztBe]

Is there are a way to test network stability for straight couple hours? Pingtest does it quickly so it doesn't catch dips.

[manikyath]

you can do

ping -t <address>

to test until stopped by the user.

 

if thats what you mean.

[Darren]

Smokeping is an effort to install and configure, but is one of the best tools out.

[D1NZ]

Network stability prolly could be done putting your network under load?

a simple program could do this is iperf, and have few of them running from different PC or laptop so on.

[Wombo]

I like to use WinMTR. It's a great little tool that is essentially just a better version of traceroute. I have used it many times in the past to diagnose issues with my ISP and their extremely poor choices on traffic routing. I would love to know if anyone knows of a free tool that can be used to track dips in speed/bandwidth and outages in some type of graphical format where the data is broken down by hours or minutes.

 

http://winmtr.net/

[D1NZ]

I like to use WinMTR. It's a great little tool that is essentially just a better version of traceroute. I have used it many times in the past to diagnose issues with my ISP and their extremely poor choices on traffic routing. I would love to know if anyone knows of a free tool that can be used to track dips in speed/bandwidth and outages in some type of graphical format where the data is broken down by hours or minutes.

 

http://winmtr.net/

 

Linux box - Smokeping

Windows - PingPlotter (has free and paid version)