Let me honest with ourselves.... https://isitdns.com/
And if not, it's mtu
Its ALWAYS DNS
I changed my DNS on the router. Page loads seem to be faster.
Also discovered Mullvad's fancy blocking DNS servers https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
~~Just trying the docker thing to see if it works~~ docker test was inconclusive
will need much more time to see if reliability has generally improved
A network connection is a stack of many different parts. I don't think there's any tool that can pinpoint a problem in that way, at least not without a lot of customization.
I would use something like the OSI model, start at the bottom, and step through each layer and verify proper operation.
And also read logs on everything when the problem is happening.
I have contemplated learning networking for other reasons. Will look at OSI
Basically this. You could start easy and basic with gatus. Monitor at least your gateway, the isp gateway and dns resolving.
do you know if there's a free version of gatus? I could only see a 7 day trial
Tried it a few months ago, self hosted was free https://github.com/TwiN/gatus
(Otherwise uptimekuma or something, there are plenty of tools out there. If you wanna do it right 1st time for free : checkmk and or librenms, but it might be overkill for you just yet)
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