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I need one of these for my elderly parent, who is unable to diagnose Internet status themselves, to help me tele-repair tech problems. Bring it to market!
by qup 4y ago
I need one of these for my elderly parent, who is unable to diagnose Internet status themselves, to help me tele-repair tech problems.
Bring it to market!
- andai 4y agoI once made a little status indicator in C#. It was just a little orb in the statusbar that would ping 8.8.8.8 and change color depending on how many packets were dropped. I lost the code. I could rebuild it (only took a few hours of Googling), but my internet is much better now so the motivation is not very strong. Does anyone know if such a thing exists already? --- Edit: (literally 10 minutes later) I now have a working version thanks to ChatGPT. https://github.com/avelican/PingStatusBarIndicator https://github.com/avelican/PingStatusBarIndicator
- Dalewyn 4y agoI've always been curious: Would it be more appropriate to ping connectivitycheck.gstatic.com instead of 8.8.8.8 or google.com for connectivity check purposes? Google probably doesn't care one way or another at small scales like personal use cases, but the saying goes that there's no such thing as a stupid question.
- andai 4y agoIt occurs to me that this would be revealing to Google when I'm using my laptop. (I think they already know that for other reasons, but still...)