The internet provider sees nothing wrong with the modem. A mechanic needs to come by, but until then i want to be able to monitor the device.

I’ve installed LibreNMS to monitor my connection. Every 5 minutes it checks by sending a ping to the router and another test is to ping 8.8.8.8 (one of the dns servers of google). It works like a charm. But sometimes the modem is restarted within 5 minutes. When i’m behind my PC i’ve started to run the ping command, and that works fine, only one thing annoyed me: I can’t see when the ping command tries to send an ping to the devices.

Thanks to the blog of: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/timestamp-ping-with-hrping/, i’m running a ping command preceded with a time stamp:
Ping From PowerShell:

Ping.exe -t 192.168.178.1 | ForEach {“{0} – {1}” -f (Get-Date),$_}
Ping.exe -t 8.8.8.8 | ForEach {“{0} – {1}” -f (Get-Date),$_}

With this you get something like this:

1/10/2020 8:51:05 PM – Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=55
1/10/2020 8:51:06 PM – Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=55
1/10/2020 8:51:07 PM – Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=55
1/10/2020 8:51:08 PM – Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=55
1/10/2020 8:51:09 PM – Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=55
1/10/2020 8:51:10 PM – Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=55
1/10/2020 8:51:11 PM – Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=55

That works like a charm!!