Internet connection monitor

Anyone know of a small app that will let you know if your internet connection drops, and writes it to a log. We've been getting complaints from users who are using a program, similar to remote desktop, that if the connection drops, they lose connection and have to reconnect again.

The ISP says that they show no dropped connections. By the time they call us up, it is back up and running. If you are on a static web page, you don't even notice it. Since they are running a live connection, they are impacted the most. If we could have some hard proof (ie: logs) that say we lost connection, maybe we could get somewhere.

Any clues?


Lee

Find your "first hop". If your computer is directly connected to your modem, then it will be your default gateway (run "route print" at the command prompt and look for the gateway is on the same line that the destination is 0.0.0.0). If you aren't directly connected, then check your router's routing table for it's default gateway.

Run "ping -t" for your first hop, and for the remote server. If pings time out for both, then it's your internet connection that is the problem. If the pings time out to the remot server only, then they are being dropped somewhere on the internet.