The Internet at my workplace has been on and off lately and the IT admins don't admit to how bad it really is. Since it works ~(most of the time), this is often ignored and is frustrating.<p>How do i measure how bad the connection is? Is tcpdump logs the only way or have you come across a cleaner hack/plugin etc?
Set up a script to poll a remote server every X seconds, collect the ping times and how many connections were dropped, and the average transfer speeds.<p>I've heard a lot of good things about <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/" rel="nofollow">http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/</a>