Is there a way to test whether my internet drops?

Elika0215

As the title says.

I've seen a few online tests for stability but wondered if anyone has used them, what's recommended and what's to be avoided.

I have full fibre (150mb/s), so it should be reliable but would like to check and identify any drops for work purposes.

Thanks.

MikeJXE

Speed test by Ookla at the App Store 

Billxx

Broadband Quality Monitor (free), measures performance from router, not device. https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality

Neil_Jones

Elika0215 said:

As the title says.

I've seen a few online tests for stability but wondered if anyone has used them, what's recommended and what's to be avoided.

I have full fibre (150mb/s), so it should be reliable but would like to check and identify any drops for work purposes.

Thanks.

If there are any "drops" they should appear in the router logs.

Do be advised that if you work from home you should really be on a business contract - you'll pay more yes (or work should really pay for it) but you'll get dibs on fault repair.

kassy64

Go in to the router stats, it will tell you how long router has been active since last connection.

Elika0215

I have the eero app and it didn't provide that data (not that I could see anyway). Having searched eero's support site, it turns out there is an eero plus - a subscription service which exclusively displays daily and monthly data usage. As someone who is resisting the urge to subscribe to anything, I won't be paying!

uvarvu

BQM as mentioned above.  You’ll need to configure your router to allow pings from the internet before it will work. Here is mine.

J_B

I use https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multiple_ping_tool.html

It simply pings BBC or Google (or whoever you choose) every 30 seconds and tabulates the results.