Have you thought about doing a TCP test?  Maybe an HTTP check to a website?  That would be better than ICMP, I think, since it would be more user like.

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On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 9:02 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> wrote:

The local cable last mile operator broke something locally, or something degraded (water ingress, bad connectors, who knows) and can't get their act together sufficiently to dispatch a field tech and fix it. 

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 11:03 AM Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:

What happened on June 20/21?  Looks like someone broke something on your cable link or perhaps an ICMP rate limiting was introduced.

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On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:45 AM Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:

I don't know how you can be embarrassed when you have a pretty solid
30ms ping constantly, and Starlink has jitter all over the place and
spikes as high as 280ms.

I'll take the DOCSIS3 system....

On 6/25/21 8:49 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> I thought I would post an interesting comparison between a degraded
> DOCSIS3 link, of a carrier that shall remain nameless to avoid
> embarrassing anybody, and a starlink CPE with a slight 1/12th tree
> obstruction in a portion of its view.
>
> First two screenshots are the docsis3, to its gateway and to a very
> reliable hosted asterisk system in Seattle.
>
> Second two screenshots are starlink, also to its gateway and to the same
> destination.
>
> https://imgur.com/a/OQ5wyDr
>