Internet is dying - or is it..?

[Volker Wysk]

Hi!

I'ts stupid. When you want things to work, they're broken. When you want them 
to be broken, they work! Well, mostly.

I've purchased a new network cable, and am running ping on both of my machines 
(desktop and laptop), for some 14 hours now. Both are connected by cable, with 
the desktop (with broken internet connection before) using the new cable, and 
the laptop using the old one.

I've written a little program which executes a command and prefixes each line 
of its output with a timestamp. The command is "ping -i20 193.99.144.80". The 
only events are:

...
2017-10-24 13:47:03  64 bytes from 193.99.144.80: icmp_seq=1724 ttl=246 
time=29.1 ms
2017-10-24 13:47:43  From 192.168.178.1 icmp_seq=1726 Destination Net 
Unreachable
2017-10-24 13:48:03  From 192.168.178.1 icmp_seq=1727 Destination Net 
Unreachable
2017-10-24 13:49:04  64 bytes from 193.99.144.80: icmp_seq=1730 ttl=246 
time=570 ms
...
(on both machines)

and

...
2017-10-24 05:32:44  64 bytes from 193.99.144.80: icmp_seq=238 ttl=246 
time=29.6 ms
2017-10-24 05:33:04  ping: sendmsg: Das Netzwerk ist nicht erreichbar
2017-10-24 07:27:49  ping: sendmsg: Das Netzwerk ist nicht erreichbar
2017-10-24 07:28:10  64 bytes from 193.99.144.80: icmp_seq=241 ttl=246 
time=30.0 ms
...
(on the laptop only, old cable)

"Das Netzwerk ist nicht erreichbar" means "the network isn't available", or 
"isn't reachable".

I don't know what happened at 5:33-7:28 on the laptop. The internet failures 
which I've had before, all resulted in the message "Destination Host 
Unreachable". Notice, i'ts "Host", not "Net" like above.

Now I'm about to let it run for another night, and wait for errors. 

It's stupid...

Bye
Volker