I was facing connection dropouts with my Raspberry Pi 4 when I was using ssh to connect to it. I thought initially it was an ssh connection issue which lead me to this blogpost: https://alignan.github.io/post/raspberry-pi-ssh-hangs/
Tl;DR: add “IPQoS 0x00” to the bottom of the “/etc/ssh/ssh_config” and “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” files
The problem with the ssh connection dropping persisted, so I was cycling the power a few times to see if a reboot resolved the problem. As the power was cycling I began pinging the ip address to see when it was back up. I left ping running by accident, but when I came back to it I noticed this pattern.
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$ ping 10.1.1.111
PING 10.1.1.111 (10.1.1.111): 56 data bytes
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64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=50.765 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=17.091 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=20 ttl=64 time=4.455 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=2.985 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=22 ttl=64 time=6.671 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=23 ttl=64 time=2.410 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=24 ttl=64 time=2.194 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=25 ttl=64 time=6.704 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=26 ttl=64 time=2.406 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=27 ttl=64 time=4.612 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=28 ttl=64 time=11.407 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=29 ttl=64 time=2.234 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=30 ttl=64 time=6.462 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=31 ttl=64 time=6.671 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=32 ttl=64 time=18.055 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=33 ttl=64 time=3.473 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=34 ttl=64 time=5.266 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=35 ttl=64 time=17.790 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=36 ttl=64 time=2.376 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=37 ttl=64 time=2.982 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=38 ttl=64 time=6.646 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=39 ttl=64 time=20.087 ms
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64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=79 ttl=64 time=24.544 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=80 ttl=64 time=14.023 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=81 ttl=64 time=12.715 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=82 ttl=64 time=2.710 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=83 ttl=64 time=5.815 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=84 ttl=64 time=28.147 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=85 ttl=64 time=17.126 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=86 ttl=64 time=10.809 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=87 ttl=64 time=4.791 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=88 ttl=64 time=7.696 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=89 ttl=64 time=5.170 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.111: icmp_seq=90 ttl=64 time=5.606 ms
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It turns out the problem was not the ssh connection at all, or at least not specifically, but that the internet connection was unstable. I switched to a 5Ghz connection instead of 2.4Ghz and the connection problem was resolved! It is an avenue worth investigating if you are having issues with ssh over your local network.