Best software to track internet outages

Are you worried that it's dropping completely, or that your speeds are dropping, or what?

I would probably start with a long-running ping test saved to a text file. Open a command prompt and type:

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ping -t 8.8.8.8 > ping.txt

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And if you are on wifi or for some other reason suspect that the problem might be local, you can run a simultaneous test in another command prompt window and ping your router (likely 192.168.1.1).

That will run forever, or until you type Ctrl-C or close the window.

If you are having speed or connection issues, they will usually show up in your ping times. Typically pings should be in the neighborhood of 20-40ms. If they spike above 100ms sometimes, or if some of them fail altogether, then you have a connection problem.


Edit: If you would like timestamps on your pings, and if you have powershell, you can create a folder c:\ping\, open powershell instead of a normal command prompt and type/copy-paste:

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ping -t 8.8.8.8 | Foreach{"{0} - {1}" -f (Get-Date),$_} > c:\ping\test.txt

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Perfect, thanks!

I have it setup.
I will export that txt file to excel tomorrow and run some stats.