Re: tool for internet connection test

[Stefan Pietsch <stefan.pietsch@lsexperts.de>]

On 04.02.2011 12:17, Lubos Rendek wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm having a real problems with my internet provider. I have plenty of
> disconnection and slow internet connection. However, my internet
> provider claims that everything is OK. Does Debian have some tool
> which can be run overnight or so to check for internet speed and/or
> count number of disconnection. All I can think of at the moment is
> "ping -c n" which gives me packet loss. Is there some tool dedicated
> for this purpose?


Have a look at smokeping: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
It can graph latency and packet loss over time.


Regards,
Stefan