Conntester

Conntester is a simple and straightforward utility that enables you to keep track of the quality of your connection. After all, poor connections do not only have a negative impact on businesses, but can give a lot of headaches for the average users as well, especially if they work from home and need to get in touch with associates, colleagues, managers or clients.

The program is portable and hence, you can simply grab it and decompress the archive in the desired location on your drives. The app is designed to work quietly in the background and can be accessed from the System Tray. Simply click on the icon to toggle the interface on and off.

The GUI consists of a relatively small window that is fixed in the lower right area of your desktop, right on top of the System Tray. Once accessed, the tool displays the current connection status in real time with data as well as a nifty graphic. More precisely, the app shows you the packet losses – in percentages – as well as the connection delay in milliseconds. At the same time, the utility displays the ping loss, the last pin as well as the mean ping of your connection, which may help determine whether you receive what your Internet contract stipulates.

As you probably hinted from the interface, the application measures the connection quality every 5 minutes by default. Then again, if you prefer to configure other intervals for the pings and their timeout, you can probably do that by editing the INI file.

Regardless of whether you want to make sure that you are getting what you are paying for or are trying to find the possible causes behind your weak Internet connection, Conntester might be worth a try.