Question How would you build an alert to outside for home wifi/internet connection problem?

[Newtonian]

I'd like to build an alert mechanism that will alert you when you're outside and your home wifi/internet connection is down.
Since anything from within your home cannot reach you, it must be something like a beacon from your home that is periodically checked by another device outside your home.
Any ideas?

 

[USAFRet]

A continuous ping (one per sec) from your system outside the LAN to your public IP address (your router).
When the router fails to reply...your connection has died.

 

[kanewolf]

I'd like to build an alert mechanism that will alert you when you're outside and your home wifi/internet connection is down.
Since anything from within your home cannot reach you, it must be something like a beacon from your home that is periodically checked by another device outside your home.
Any ideas?

What response time do you require? I have a weather station that posts data every 5 min.

 

[punkncat]

Along the same lines already being explored would be something like an Arlo or Nest camera. It wouldn't alert you, per se, but you would know since you wouldn't be able to view.

Do you mind my asking, why?

 

[Newtonian]

What response time do you require? I have a weather station that posts data every 5 min.

Every 5 min is decent enough for my purposes. I'll look into the weather station idea. I sounds robust and yet simple enough.

 

[kanewolf]

Every 5 min is decent enough for my purposes. I'll look into the weather station idea. I sounds robust and yet simple enough.

Weather Underground is a website that will accept personal weather station data and tells you when it was last updated.

 

[Newtonian]

Along the same lines already being explored would be something like an Arlo or Nest camera. It wouldn't alert you, per se, but you would know since you wouldn't be able to view.

Do you mind my asking, why?

My internet has occasional interruption, and I'd like to be notified when it happens even when I'm not at home. I think it will help me troubleshoot.