Measuring internet 'quality'

J_B

Our ISP is a WISP provider - Airband.

Most of the time they are a steady 30Mbps but the last few nights we have experienced several drop outs and disconnections.

I'm just trying to measure what's happening now and using Fast.com for simplicity

Just now all I can get is Hmm, we're having trouble, then a few seconds later on the screen it has fluctuated between 1 and 24 Mbps

If I then connect to my phone's 4g hotspot, I 'only' get 11Mbps but it seems a much more steady/solid connection.

Is there an app or something I can use to check what's happening?

[Deleted User]

Hard to measure speed constantly really because you need to saturate your connection to do that, the last thing you need when busy doing something on the internet is another device using all your bandwidth. 

But monitoring dropouts and disconnects along with ping times can be done without being intrusive:

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality

J_B

Looks rather complicated, but have set it up (I think) so will observe ...

J_B

Morning!

Sadly, my graph is 'all red' this morning

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/faq/broadband-quality-monitor says

BQM graph with ICMP blocked

Then double check that your registered IP address is correct, and that your broadband router that has been assigned this IP address. Check the router is configured to respond to ping requests on its WAN/Internet port. The option is sometimes referred to as 'reply to ICMP requests'.

As my router is not on their list (it's a Cambium Networks cnPilot R210P) it suggested I did a traceroute which told me ...

Which sadly means nothing to me ......

Any thoughts?

Sicard

Maybe worth installing an app like Inssider which shows what channel you and all those on wi-fi in your vicinity are using and strength of signal.Oddly the lower the number the stronger the signal. Also try flushing your internet cache, reset Winsock, and reset TCP/IP, essentially resetting and renewing your network connection in one step. I useit to boost my signaland avoid any dropouts: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/reset_and_renew_your_internet_connection.html

J_B

Sicard said:

Maybe worth installing an app like Inssider which shows what channel you and all those on wi-fi in your vicinity are using and strength of signal.Oddly the lower the number the stronger the signal. Also try flushing your internet cache, reset Winsock, and reset TCP/IP, essentially resetting and renewing your network connection in one step. I useit to boost my signaland avoid any dropouts: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/reset_and_renew_your_internet_connection.html

We are *very* rural so only one house 50m away (who use the same ISP and are reporting the same issues)

Have used inSSIDer before.

Our router has 2.4 and 5 Ghz (two separate channels) 2.4 is on channel 11 (-50 dBm) and 5 says it's on 151 [149] (-72 dBm)

Neighbour's router is on channel 2

Will try the reset thingy now .....