wired network dropping

[13thmonkey]

My desktop is connected to my BT hub via wireless and wired connections through a switch and powerline all Gbe and cat 5e throughout the chain.

For months, and after much swearing at BT, i've been having massive ping problems on BF4, happily sitting at 30-40, and then popping up to 500-600 for 2-3 seconds. It would also drop me from citrix sessions to my works citrix servers maybe once or twice a day.

This morning I noticed that my desktop had lost connection through the wired connection (as has my server connected to the same switch) several times, the wireless connection stays up during this period. And I can still RDP to the server, so that discounts the switch I think. If I leave it alone the wired connection reconnects.

How do I go about identifying the issue? Any tools that can discriminate between a cable failing and the router failing?

 

[McNeal]

Bypass the router entirely and connect directly to the modem and restart your pc. If you still experience the same issue its the PC or the cable. Try substituting the cable.

 

[13thmonkey]

router is the modem. phone line - router - powerline - powerline - switch - desktop/server
Guess it's swapping cables out then. Very intermittent though. Twice this morning. So I might not know I've fixed it. Any thing that can log connectivity to the router on a polling basis on one connection mode only?