Monitoring network quality

[uhrheber]

Hi.

I want to use an ESP8266 to monitor the quality of my internet connection by pinging an external server periodically, and monitor the reaction time.
Is this even possible with ESPEasy?

If measuring the reaction time isn't possible, is it at least possible to ping at all (or do a http request instead) and detect a missing reaction?
Does a http request triggered by a rule give back a result?

Thanks
Uhrheber