flabberghaster wrote on January 12, 2023 at 5:14 PM

If you have a laptop with an Ethernet adapter I'd just use that.

flabberghaster wrote on January 12, 2023 at 7:00 PM

Or actually are you able to log in to a shell on your router?

voxpoplar OP wrote on January 13, 2023 at 11:59 AM

I am not

flabberghaster wrote on January 13, 2023 at 4:19 PM

I guess you don't need to for my idea anyway which is to flood ping the router (ping it with an increased frequency and see if you get packet losses)

voxpoplar OP wrote on January 13, 2023 at 4:58 PM

how would I do that in a way that measured bandwidth?

flabberghaster wrote on January 13, 2023 at 5:51 PM

Well the original idea was to run something that accepts a TCP connection, and then run wireshark and see if you have a lot of retransmitted packets, which would mean the cable is probably bad and dropping packets.

You can probably still look at ping and see if there's packet drops but yeah, probably not as reliable doing it that way.