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A tool for seeing your Internet latency. Try it at http://gfblip.appspot.com/

15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 7 stories, 8 comments · first 2013-04-27 · latest 2025-03-31

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    Blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency
    story by aftbit · 2025-03-31 · 1 comment
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    Blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency
    story by fanf2 · 2025-03-20 · 0 comments
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    Blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency
    story by fanf2 · 2025-02-09 · 0 comments
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    story by Bluestein · 2024-07-16 · 0 comments
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    Blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency
    story by colinprince · 2024-07-08 · 0 comments
  6. Seems like a great alternative to blip. https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
    comment by reboot81 · 2023-08-10 · in Speed Test
  7. …mixed-content protection. So it doesn't work in modern browsers unless you jump through some hoops. https://github.com/apenwarr/blip/issues/10
  8. …commonly used as routers that the program tries first to see if they are faster than gstatic.com. https://github.com/apenwarr/blip/commit/b284f922b047e9032112... Instead of apenwarr.ca, the code tries a bunch of sites from…
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    Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency
    story by tosh · 2022-11-03 · 154 comments
  10. I like this one which I think was a Show HN a while ago https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
  11. …out the instructions in the GitHub repository, has two versions, neither are very long nor complex. https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
    comment by diggan · 2020-11-14 · in gping: Ping, but with a graph
  12. Try https://github.com/apenwarr/blip - built by google fiber guys for exactly this.
    comment by jordanthoms · 2016-08-10 · in Building fast.com
  13. I'm sure you guys are on it, but: See apenwarr's 'Blip' for checking latency in the browser: https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
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    Blip: a tool for seeing your Internet latency (in JavaScript)
    story by edwintorok · 2013-04-27 · 0 comments
  15. Full explanation here explains how it works: https://github.com/apenwarr/blip#readme As a point of comparison, my results are: - gstatic.com ~75ms - apenwarr.ca ~150ms - wired ethernet network - ADSL - paying my ISP $52/month + taxes Has…