Show HN: Ping Man – Monitor your ping from your menu bar

Posted by mariedm on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:51AM
from the show-hn dept.

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Re:Show HN: Ping Man – Monitor your ping from your menu bar by jperras on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:19AM (#17417037)

iStat Menus (https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/) has this same functionality (and much more). It's a bit more expensive though.

It's quite nice to be able to check if some app is downloading an update in the background and throttling my already precariously slow internet connection.

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Re:Show HN: Ping Man – Monitor your ping from your menu bar by kaustubhvp on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:31PM (#17412009)

I hate to see it is a paid app. things like this need to be open source and free.

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Re:Show HN: Ping Man – Monitor your ping from your menu bar by madamelic on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:08PM (#17425300)

Yeah, because as we all know software developers eat gratitude and live inside of their computer towers. ;)

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Re:Show HN: Ping Man – Monitor your ping from your menu bar by mariedm on Thursday June 28, 2018 @04:09AM (#17414980)

If you need it $4 is not that expensive.

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Re:Show HN: Ping Man – Monitor your ping from your menu bar by matt_the_bass on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:52AM (#17407171)

How does it “free up your bandwidth”?

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Re:Show HN: Ping Man – Monitor your ping from your menu bar by mariedm on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @07:21AM (#17407287)

By seeing which apps consume the most network, you can choose to close some of them. For example, if you see that Dropbox is currently receiving 5MB of data, maybe it can wait for later. Close it for now to free up your bandwidth.

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Re:Show HN: Ping Man – Monitor your ping from your menu bar by graylien on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @07:21AM (#17407283)

looks like you can find out and monitor those apps that consume the most

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