Another useful monitoring tool

I saw this on hacker news recently (it has been around for years though) and think it is another useful tool to have for checking your connection.
It is pretty self explanatory and there is a Github for the details but it is like a realtime BQM when you need some quick data to check a connection.

Tool - http://gfblip.appspot.com/

Github - https://github.com/apenwarr/blip

Edited by smouty (Mon 07-Nov-22 12:18:52)

Spam

Where?

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Spam

That's not actually how you report spam, you either a) ignore it, or b) post in TTTS. (or c) use the report this post option if you have it)

I doubt it ... the poster has been around sine '03

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Spam

I don't know anything about this tool but I would question why the OP would bother SPAMing after 19 years of being a member and 200+ posts. I would take a good guess and say its extremely unlikely.

Blip is a useful tool, and IMO is on-topic for this forum. It's not spam.

100%.

Both the OP and subject are completely kosher

The “spam” was a false flag. Perhaps raised by mistake.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Perhaps raised by mistake.

I think you are being very generous.

🙂

Blip (the tool in question) was similarly brought up in a thread last week over at ISPreview.

Similar reason for it being raised there as here in the OP, despite it being around for a good few years, it recently surfaced again on hackernews. Perhaps Max saw that reference and thought “spam”

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Perhaps Max saw that reference and thought

There is always a first time.

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Perhaps Max saw that reference and thought

There is always a first time.

Nice to see him not posting about his slow speeds for a change

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Blip is a useful tool, and IMO is on-topic for this forum. It's not spam.

Ah ok. At first I wasn't sure if it was spam or not. Thanks

In reply to a post by adslmax:

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Blip is a useful tool, and IMO is on-topic for this forum. It's not spam.

Ah ok. At first I wasn't sure if it was spam or not. Thanks

Next time try doing a little research before calling a member a spammer and also report it rather than calling them out in the thread!

Thanks for the support guys.

I guess this is only useful in a browser?

Its interesting to see the way its visualised, though not able to see historic data like BQM?

In reply to a post by AyeUp:

I guess this is only useful in a browser?

Its interesting to see the way its visualised, though not able to see historic data like BQM?

No. It gives similar data to BQM but where you haven’t yet set one up or just want to run an ad-hoc test it is fine.

It does appear to give a quick useful impression of your broadband ping in real time - the only thing I notice though is that the base level is much higher than BQM (or pinging a nearby server) - ~20ms vs 5ms - so I guess it's not hosted in the UK. [Edit: looked at it again and it appears to be based in Zurich].

Edited by Stargazer99 (Wed 16-Nov-22 13:47:33)