Test the WiFi connection

[Henko]

While playing an on-line game on the PC, i came to suspect the quality of the internet connection. Although the “WiFi” led on the router was lit continuously, the connection seemed to be interrupted often for a short time.

To get “proof”, i made a little SB program. It does a “ping” command every second to the IP address of Google, and writes a record with date/time info to a file whenever the response of the ping command is zero (i.e. “no connection”).
This file looks like:

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This info may help the internetprovider to see what the problem is.

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' test WiFi connection
'
f$="WiFi_test.txt"
if file_exists(f$) then file f$ delete
get_time()
file f$ print "Start at "&dt$
print "Start at "&dt$
do slowdown
  get_time()
  if s<>so then
    so=s ! sec+=1
    if ping("8.8.8.8")=1 then continue      ' connected
    file f$ print "no WiFi at "&dt$&" "&sec ' not connected
    print         "no WiFi at "&dt$
    beep
    end if
  until forever
end

def get_time()
.yy=CURRENT_YEAR ()
.mm=CURRENT_MONTH ()
.dd=CURRENT_DATE ()
.h=CURRENT_HOUR ()
.m=CURRENT_MINUTE ()
.s=CURRENT_SECOND ()
.dt$=.dd&"-"&.mm&"-"&.yy&" / "&.h&"u"&"-"&.m&"m"&"-"&.s&"s"
end def

[Chooch912]

Very interesting!

I ran your program for 15 minutes using the Google IP Address and received no "no WiFi" hits.

But when I duplicated the program using my IP Address (and file name) I was getting "no WiFi" a bit over every 10 seconds.

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Any idea what is going on with this?

[Henko]

I have no idea.
I will try that here, polling my own IP address. If i get the same result, i wll ask around, because i want to know what’s happening.

[Henko]

Yes, i get the same result while “pinging” the IP adress of my router. I’ll look into that.

[Henko]

I asked my sun:

Hoi,

Niet alle apparaten zijn geconfigureerd om op een ping te antwoorden.
(Not all hardware units are configured to answer a ping)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_ ... e_Protocol

Groets,

[Dutchman]

I ran the program for two days. It's remarkable that after a few hours, the interval remains almost constant at two hours.
Provider: KPN (NL), via fiber optic

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[Chooch912]

I asked my ISP why, when I use my IP address, I get "no WiFi" every 10 seconds but they haven't replied.

Because I am in the USA I modified the program so the hour shows as "h" rather than "u" and the date format is "mm/dd/yyyy". I wanted the month to show as "Jan, Feb, Mar, etc" instead of as a number. I am not real experienced at !Basic coding and changed the month "number" to the month "abbreviation" using the lines below. How could I have done that easier?

if .mm=1 then .mm$="Jan"
if .mm=2 then .mm$="Feb"
if .mm=3 then .mm$="Mar"
if .mm=4 then .mm$="Apr"
if .mm=5 then .mm$="May"
if .mm=6 then .mm$="Jun"
if .mm=7 then .mm$="Jul"
if .mm=8 then .mm$="Aug"
if .mm=9 then .mm$="Sep"
if .mm=10 then .mm$="Oct"
if .mm=11 then .mm$="Nov"
if .mm=12 then .mm$="Dec"

[Chooch912]

After asking my ISP about the "no WiFi" every 10 seconds using my IP address they did a "reset" of my router and fiber input but I still get the "no WiFi" every 10 seconds, so resetting did nothing and they have no answer as to why this anomaly is occurring.

Notice I did modify the program to match US date format and US "hour" designation. I really like this program!

Start at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-22m-52s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-22m-52s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-23m-2s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-23m-12s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-23m-22s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-23m-32s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-23m-42s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-23m-52s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-24m-2s
no WiFi at Nov-19-2025 / 15h-24m-12s