Hoping you can give me some guidance.

I'm evaluating PP to see if I can troubleshoot wireless cellular issues I'm having (poor latency in certain day-time patterns). I would like to log hop times every 5 minutes for the last hop (cellular gateway) but I'm getting 'wake up' delays. The problems I'm trying to characterize with PP are related to post 'wake up' communications but I fear I am only logging the first exchange.

Here is an example.

PPS shows:

5 5594 ms [a.b.c.d]
6 10 ms [e.f.g.h]
7 17 ms [i.j.k.l]
8 30 ms [e.m.n.o]
9 18 ms [e.m.p.q]
10 23 ms [r.s.t.u]
11 18 ms [v.w.x.y]
12 73 ms [v.w.z.aa]
13 66 ms [v.bb.cc.dd]
14 71 ms [ee.ff.gg.hh]
15 78 ms [ee.ff.gg.hh]
16 69 ms [ii.jj.kk.ll]
17 70 ms [ii.jj.mm.nn]
18 72 ms [ee.oo.pp.qq]
19 5500 ms [111.222.333.444]

Note the last hop is over 5 seconds.

If I ping the same device:

Pinging 111.222.333.444 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 111.222.333.444: bytes=32 time=3071ms TTL=41
Reply from 111.222.333.444: bytes=32 time=238ms TTL=41
Reply from 111.222.333.444: bytes=32 time=236ms TTL=41
Reply from 111.222.333.444: bytes=32 time=236ms TTL=41

Ping statistics for 111.222.333.444:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 236ms, Maximum = 3071ms, Average = 945ms

Note the first ping time.

It is the performance of the later communications I would like to log in PP.

If I could execute a leading ping or eq. before each logged sample, it might help. Is that possible?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

JoeG