Easy Packet Loss Tracker

Overview

This PowerShell script helps you monitor packet loss on your network by continuously pinging a specified target (website or IP address) and providing real-time updates on successful responses and timeouts.

Parameters

The script accepts the following parameters:

• -target: Specifies the target website or IP address to ping. Defaults to "google.com" if not specified.
• -count: Specifies the number of times to ping the target. Defaults to 900 if not specified.
• -OnFailure (scriptblock, optional): A script block to execute when a ping attempt fails (i.e., when a timeout occurs). This script block will be executed in the context of the script. If not provided, no action will be taken on failure.

Usage

1. Download or clone the script to your local machine.
2. Open a PowerShell terminal.
3. Navigate to the directory where the script is located.
4. Run the script with optional parameters:

   .\script.ps1 -target "example.com" -count 1000 -OnFailure $failureAction

5. Log to a file with:

   .\script.ps1 > output.txt
   

Output

Please see example_output.txt for a full example run.

At the end of the execution you will get a summary:

===== Summary =====
From: 2024-02-22 10:11:42 || To: 2024-02-22 10:28:57
Total Packets sent: 900
Packet loss: 3.11%
Total timeouts: 28

== All Timeouts: ==
[18/900] 2024-02-22 10:12:00
[29/900] 2024-02-22 10:12:15
...
[866/900] 2024-02-22 10:28:14
[867/900] 2024-02-22 10:28:19
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