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Smokeping used to be one of my favourity tools when I was working as a SysAdmin long time ago. It's offers such a clever way of presenting the data, that it is super easy to identify any issues.
I still wonder why modern tools haven't adopted this ingenious technique.
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Have a look at bping http://gizmoware.net/bping/ you don't even have to keep an eye on it, you can set it to one of two settings, sound on error or sound on resolve. So if you have a server that is always on, you can set it to beep when the server goes off, or you can set it to make a sound when the device comes back online. I have it on hand when I am restarting things and don't have to "watch" for it to come... Source: almost 2 years ago
I'd recommend setting up SmokePing or Vaping to get a better idea of latency and connectivity. Source: 10 months ago
Let me introduce you to a rather old, but still highly useful, tool for free. Takes a little leg work to get going, but pays off in style. https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/. Source: 11 months ago
So I would run Smoke Ping (https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/) for a while to get an idea of the loss. If it really is an external issue, you can try a VPN to hopefully pickup a different route. Source: 11 months ago
I personally like smokeping, https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ . Has lots of different probes so you can do more than just "ping if it is alive". Source: about 1 year ago
I previously made a post asking for some ping results for various people in the area. Thank you to everyone who replied. Some of the comments encouraged me to set up a more proper monitoring system for keeping track of latencies to various servers, and to consider more than just ICMP ping as said packets are likely deprioritized. I set up an instance of SmokePing and have it monitoring a number of services, as... Source: about 1 year ago
PingPlotter - PingPlotter is a troubleshooting tool that helps IT professionals and neophytes identify, diagnose, and resolve network issues.
Paessler PRTG - An advanced network monitoring solution to monitor network up/downtime, traffic and usage.
PingInfoView - PingInfoView is a small utility that allows you to easily ping multiple host names and IP addresses, and watch the result in one table.
PowerPing - Advanced command-line ping tool, lovingly inspired by Windows and Linux native tools.
Fping (open source) - fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.
jNetMap - jNetMap is a graphical network monitoring and documentation tool.
