Pinging.net - a new quick way to monitor your internet connection

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What do you do when you question whether your internet connection is working, or not? I built Pinging.net to be a fast and convenient way to monitor your internet connection. How does pinging.net work? Visiting Pinging will automatically run a few tests. Firstly, caching for the site is disabled, so when the page loads you have… continue reading.
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Thanks for sharing. I like this. Love the visuals.

Any chance for a command-line version that functions the same; powered by Pinging?

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I’ve been using ping.pe for years. Enter my IP or any IP/website.

Thanks for this, bookmarked!

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That’s pretty cool. I agree with @hydn about the visuals.

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Thanks everyone!

@hydn I have thought a bit about a CLI. Without the restrictions of the browser there is even more you could do. For example the CLI could attempt to determine the boundary between your internet and intranet (i.e. your router) and send actual ping packets to both your router and a host on the internet and show any packet loss differences (which could help people determine WiFi vs ISP issues).

Right now I am going to focus on the website. There are still some additional features I want to add and I like how easy it is for non-technical users and low friction it is for technical users. The first users were my family members who aren’t technical or use terminal apps. I’ll keep thinking about a CLI. If anyone is interested in building one, I am happy to collaborate too.

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Cool interface, what about proxy support like SelekTor or Squid does it show those too?

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@tmick I am not sure I understand your question but let me try to answer. The connections to pinging.net should proxy the same as other sites you visit in your browser. If you have a proxy or VPN it will add latency but otherwise should not change anything. It is possible that some proxies or VPNs will block WebRTC so the Web Pings won’t work. All of the pages/apis are explicitly marked as not cachable so any proxy that respects the headers shouldn’t be caching the pages (and affecting the latency).

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You sort of did answer the question without being sure you did. I was asking (kind of poorly, I could have worded that much better) if it would show all connections from that computer. So if you had a Proxy configured and wanted to see if it was doing what it should be doing or if it did that or per interface eth0, eth1 etc.
But your explanation answered that by explaining what it does. Either way I like the interface :grin: