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Display the ping time to a particular host

Jon Evans on October 17, 2005 - 3:41pm

I’ve posted a GeekTool recipe on my blog which will show the ping time to a particular host. I have two of them configured, one pinging my server at home, the other pinging my hosted website. It only pings every 20 seconds, but it’s quite handy for spotting things like my home ADSL connection going down.

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