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Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

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I keep getting drops in connection to a server that my PC is connected to 24/7. I'm not sure if it's the server side, or my network connection that is dropping out.

Is there any free Windows 8.1 compatible software that would sit in the background and log statistics on uptime, downtime etc?
 
The easiest and quickest way is to ping the hops. So ping you gateway aka router. Then ping Google for instance. If it drops on your router then its an issue on your end.

Use "ping ***IP*** -t" off the top of my head. Then see if its dropped some after running that say for an hour.
 
Thanks, I've got WinMTR running just now (set to Google). What am I looking for in particular? #1 shows an ip address with 0% loss, but then there's some virginmedia stuff, some with 99% loss. :confused:
 
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Thanks, I've got WinMTR running just now (set to Google). What am I looking for in particular? #1 shows an ip address with 0% loss, but then there's some virginmedia stuff, some with 99% loss. :confused:
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Don't worry about intermediate hops losing 99%, as long as the loss doesn't continue from that point. It may just be that particular hop is set to either not respond to ping or deprioritises ping.
 
Pay attention to the first hop and the final hop. The Virgin routers are probably configured to treat as low priority/drop ICMP
 
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I was reading it as 12% loss which I thought was bad?
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Kind of, but not really.

The one that really matters is the last hop, if your loss gradually increases to the last hop then it's loss.

Losing 12 on the first then a few variable results is just hops not responding.
 
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