Utility to monitor internet connectivity?

Utility to monitor internet connectivity?

I live in an apartment complex which advertises a "free high-speed internet connection"... but it's really not high-speed at all, and often not even a connection. That is, it's frequently the case that I can't access anything on the internet from my computer. I can still get to my router's admin page so I know it's not a case of my computer dropping its network connection entirely; the problem definitely appears to be out of my control.

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Your current plan of pinging every 5 minutes is a pretty good one. I'd take it one step further and look into making pretty graphs with something like Munin. Munin runs every 5 minutes and collects stats on your system, then plots them with RRDTool. Adding a plugin to ping a known site should be a trivial task (my Munin instance even tracks my cable modem).