[olug] ping modem

[Luke -Jr]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
> I keep losing my connection to the outside world, though my LAN is fine
> and Cox says my modem is fine.  Usually I end up resetting the modem and
> sometimes the routers too.  There's got to be something wrong between
> the modem and the router.  How can I troubleshoot what it might be?

Try 'mtr'

From my observations, Cox itself has been losing connectivity to the internet, 
and irregularly high packet loss otherwise.