Testing internet or web packet loss
Introduction
Sometimes you may encounter issues trying to connect to the internet or accessing a website. There are a couple of ways to detect this type of loss, usually a packet loss, with pings to other servers. In this case, we'll be pinging Cloudflare's domain servers.
Testing Packet Loss
You can test for packet loss by going to https://packetlosstest.com/ and running the diagnostics there. It will interpret results, and there will be a disagreement on what is good or bad - but this is a valid and good attempt for compromise.
Ping Method
On Windows 10, please follow the instructions below:
- Go to "Start" at the bottom left
- Type in "cmd.exe" or "powershell" in the start menu
- Type in: "ping 8.8.8.8 -n 50"
- Wait for 50 lines of output to appear
- Navigate to https://packetlosstest.com/interpreting-results
On OSX, please follow the instructions below:
- Navigate to Applications/Utilities or /Launchpad/Utilities, or press CMD + Spacebar, and type/search for "Terminal"
- Type in: "ping 8.8.8.8"
- Wait for 30 seconds to 1 minute and then you can cancel the ping test by doing CMD + C.
- Navigate to https://packetlosstest.com/interpreting-results