Looking for a connection monitor that tells you if your internet died

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Daal

I tried a few connections monitors out there and they are graph based which doesn't help me much. I need to be able to tell if that internet went down(even if for only 1sec, if I'm reading I can't tell), in the graphs you cant distinguish between inactivity and periods where the connection died
 
It needs to be something passive that I just check the logs after. I will have to monitor everyday all day so any active solution is not optimal
 
The easiest way is to open the black command prompt window and type "ping myfavouritewebsite.com -t". You will immediately see the output format changing when connection drops. (The output doesn't keep a timestamp. So, you need something m,ore sophisticated if you want to see when connection dropped in the past.)
 
I am unclear if you are looking for a GUI software to confirm what you are already seeing, or if you are looking for an SNMP/WMI programmatic indicator. As it happens, there are even events that ones program can subscribe to which identify losing and regaining local connectivity. In general, routers/teaming technologies commonly use a consensus of ping results from a variety of ping targets to determine which paths are functional.
 
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