How to Monitor your Internet Connection
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These days internet connection has been flaky for the past few days. It works fine for 20-30 mins and again connection get breaks for a while. This make irritate, as I also have the same problem.
This kind of issue mostly because of ISP server, Internet Router, or DNS problem. Mostly these problem is out of your reach. This make erratic, when you are submitting any web forums or downloading any stuff.
As ISP resolve this problem, I have to continuously monitor the Internet connection as so on. But there is good news that you don't have to download any kind of Application or a software for monitoring your Internet connection. You can simply use the "Ping" command for this which itself check the downtime of your connection.
Ping to Monitor your Internet Connection
Here “-t” switch is important as it means that the ping command will run forever unless stopped manually by hitting Ctrl + C and (8.8.8.8 is Google’s DNS Server)
The output of the ping command is shown in the above picture. As its status show that “reply from 8.8.8.8,” this means that machine is live or the connection is available. And as its says "Request timed out." this means the connection is down.
This kind of issue mostly because of ISP server, Internet Router, or DNS problem. Mostly these problem is out of your reach. This make erratic, when you are submitting any web forums or downloading any stuff.
As ISP resolve this problem, I have to continuously monitor the Internet connection as so on. But there is good news that you don't have to download any kind of Application or a software for monitoring your Internet connection. You can simply use the "Ping" command for this which itself check the downtime of your connection.
Ping to Monitor your Internet Connection
To monitor just follow the simple steps.
Goto Start button,
Type run or press Windows+R button
Type “ping -t 8.8.8.8″ without the quotes, and hit enter
or you can also open Command Prompt
To open, Goto Start button, type "CMD" and hit enter
Type “ping -t 8.8.8.8″ without the quotes, and hit enter.
This will automatically starts monitoring your Internet connection.
The output of the ping command is shown in the above picture. As its status show that “reply from 8.8.8.8,” this means that machine is live or the connection is available. And as its says "Request timed out." this means the connection is down.