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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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
Try again using https://openspeedtest.com/ on a wired computer. Source: 5 months ago
Are you in the US? I would try to run tests to the same place to establish consistency in your data (openspeedtest.com). Source: 10 months ago
Hmm I get 57 down and 28 up using openspeedtest.com. Maybe all these speed test sites aren't good. Source: 11 months ago
Playing around with the ER8411 with 5Gbps internet and I am able to get download speeds of 4.9~5.0Gbps but no matter which site I test with; fast.com, wifiman.com, openspeedtest.com, or speedtest.net I am unable to get beyond 1Gbps upload. Source: 11 months ago
Does it affect traffic that's only inside your LAN as well? I use https://openspeedtest.com for doing local speedtests, in case you need a way to test that. Source: about 1 year ago
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