Log internet connection

[NickThissen]

Hi,

I am looking for some kind of tool that lets me 'log' my internet connection. Basically I want it to show me, almost in real-time, what my connection speed is or something.

I'm asking this cause I have a suspicion that my internet might be dropping out regularly, but only for a couple of seconds. I notice it in games mostly, for example in call of duty games I sometimes lose my connection for 2-3 seconds (while other players don't feel anything), or in FIFA on the xbox I get disconnected in the middle of a match (lost connection to EA servers), even thuogh I can reconnect again immediately afterwards...
Also, my own radio streaming application that I wrote sometimes seems to lose its connection. I have it read an XML file on the internet somewhere every 5 seconds to retrieve the 'now playing info' for the song that is playing, and (due to lack of error handling ) it will throw an error when it cannot find the file and it does this sometimes, but only once (if the file was actually offline it would throw the error every 5 seconds, but it doesn't).


So yeah, basically what I need is a tool that I can just run in the background for a couple of hours and at the end I can see how many times and for how long I lost my connection. I need it to be pretty fast too, because my disconnects only take a few seconds, so a tool that just checks my connection once every minute or something won't do, I won't be able to see my disconnects on that...


Does anyone know anything of the sort? Thanks!

[baja_yu]

Try DU Meter: http://www.hageltech.com/dumeter/about

[NickThissen]

Thanks, that seems useful. However as far as I can see it only shows me what I am actually using. What I would like is that it just runs in the background for a day or something (I could leave the PC on during the day not doing anything) and that I could see that, even then, it would sometimes lose its connection. Now I can only see it if it happens while I'm using the internet.

It's still useful though, I'll keep an eye on it while I'm playing a game or surfing, I'm sure to catch a connection drop soon

EDIT
I see I can set it to display an alert when my 'received' or 'sent' rate is below x bytes in the last y seconds. That would be useful. I have now set it to display an alert if my usage goes below 1 byte in the last 3 seconds. That is the lowest I can select (I can go to 1 second but I think 3 is better at this time), but I am not sure whether it is perhaps too low? If I lose my connection completely, will it drop down to exactly 0 bytes within a couple of seconds?