Yes, my main concern is connection, because I have VoIP phone and is no fun getting disconnected every hour or so. But, Carrytel told me to connect my PC directly to the cable modem. Right after talking to them, my IP and DHCP lease time changed. Before it was 1 hours lease, now it's 48 hours. I'll look into "ping". Problem with ping is that it prints timestamp in Unix seconds. I want it in regular date/time. -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 09:25:05PM +0000, Giles Orr wrote:
So ... is the problem disconnection? The duration of the disconnection? The fact that your IP changes? I personally wouldn't be concerned if my IP changed (I don't run externally accessible services), so long as I have a connection. So I'd be logging a never-ending ping to some source like 8.8.4.4 (Google DNS) to determine how long and how often I was disconnected for. (I'm not really looking for answers to these questions, just suggesting things to think about.)