Ping Monitor

Checking your connection by pinging various websites isn’t a difficult task to begin with, but a specialized app can make this even easier. Ping Monitor is a Windows gadget that was designed to provide an easy way to ping a server and view the results in real-time.

The app has a small interface that shouldn’t be difficult to handle.

The tool installs as a widget and the frame can be moved to any area of the screen. You may add up to five different websites from your favorites list and view a real-time graphic with the results.

When adding these, you may choose how frequent the program pings the server and what message to display if any error is detected.

Several settings can be accessed. For instance, you can have the show lost pings in percentages and to play an alarm sound if ping is lost. Also, the graph lines style may be changed, as well as their width.

The default colors may be modified for various items, such as the background, title, servers and lost pings, to name just a few. The small tool supports logging for any of the servers.

Ping Monitor is a nice widget that can be quite useful. Inexperienced individuals shouldn’t have any problems in installing and customizing it, thanks to the intuitive interface and the app’s overall simplicity.