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.
flabberghaster wrote
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.