Pinging.net – Monitor Your Internet Connection
Unreliable internet is super frustrating right? I started working on this side project, pinging.net, in 2019 when we had a bad router that was causing internet issues on my spouse's phone. Downloading an app to run ping isn't fun and I thought it would be cool to be able to quickly "run ping" in the browser. I have worked on it off and on since then, mostly motivated when I would run into yet another internet issue (e.g. Zoom calls over Airbnb WiFi while traveling). Last week, we had yet another an internet issue where every 140 seconds our connections were getting reset. This was very…
Pinging.net – Monitor Your Internet Connection launched on May 16, 2022 with 5 votes, #1,212 of 2,941 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Unreliable internet is super frustrating right? I started working on this side project, pinging.net, in 2019 when we had a bad router that was causing internet issues on my spouse's phone. Downloading an app to run ping isn't fun and I thought it would be cool to be able to quickly "run ping" in the browser. I have…
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