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Freeware Spotlight — PingStatus
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November 15, 2020 at 9:15 pm #2312143
Tracey Capen
AskWoody MVPBEST UTILITIES By Deanna McElveen In our neck of the woods, high-speed and reliable Internet connections can be a rare commodity. It’s not uncommon to
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November 16, 2020 at 7:45 am #2312232
barrym
AskWoody PlusIs it only me?
I didn’t find PingStatus on OlderGeeks. I tried searching but it didn’t appear so I looked in the listings and found PingAlert and several others under ping but no pingstatus.
I then tried looking for it under the name .exe and found http://www.pingstatus.net by Bakidok in spanish……
Where do I find the version you indicated pingstatus 3.3.0
Thanks, Barry
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November 16, 2020 at 9:06 am #2312252
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November 16, 2020 at 4:30 pm #2312355
DMSA Douglas Spaeth
AskWoody PlusThis Progrma suggestion got me thinking about something I would really like but haven’t seen since I was using a program called ?netstat? about 10 years ago. It lived in the taskbar.
After multiple windows upgrades (and Mac upgrades) iterations I couldn’t get it to work reliably anymore so I got rid of it.
What I would like is a program that checks my network connectivity (like PING) and also Download speed (download more important to me) – then reports or logs that info either to my server or emails a report if out of range or something. Could run on an always on Windows or Mac PC too.
I pay for bandwidth and expect it to be pretty close to 500 Mbps. Sadly my VPN usually slays the speed frequently in half. VPN is PIA. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance
-Doug
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November 17, 2020 at 12:34 am #2312422
Paul T
AskWoody MVPA quick search found this Capterra page listing free options.
cheers, Paul
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November 17, 2020 at 9:43 am #2312478
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November 18, 2020 at 10:36 am #2312746
anonymous
GuestThanks. Pingstatus.exe downloaded and worked ! Not sure if I understand options but did see my internet was all was in the green for now.
BTW, downloading from the website https://www.pingstatus.net/en.html I was cautioned not to as not safe.
I am not sure if MALWAREBYTES or Windows Defender did want it from WINDOWS INSTALL option on that site.
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November 18, 2020 at 11:41 am #2312766
CADesertRat
AskWoody PlusSince I’m not a networking guru, is the program just a Ping with no D/L speeds or U/L speeds? If so I assume that you should get low pings if all is well. Is that the whole purpose of the program (just to ping)?
Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 🙂
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November 19, 2020 at 2:06 am #2312910
Paul T
AskWoody MVPYes, it is ping only and lower time is better, but not necessarily an indicator of goodness.
This is a simple test of network connection and should only be used when you have a problem as it adds data to the internet and if we all did that…cheers, Paul
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December 1, 2020 at 2:38 am #2316176
SheldonD
AskWoody Plus“The utility’s author created a starting target — google.com ”
I tried other URLs but nothing happened, IE http://www.yahoo.com,
although I was able to check the status for my router successfully.Thanx, Sheldon
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