apenwarr/blip
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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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Seems like a great alternative to blip. https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
comment by reboot81 · 2023-08-10 · in Speed Test -
…mixed-content protection. So it doesn't work in modern browsers unless you jump through some hoops. https://github.com/apenwarr/blip/issues/10
comment by dbmnt · 2022-11-04 · in Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency -
…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…
comment by js2 · 2022-11-03 · in Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency -
I like this one which I think was a Show HN a while ago https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
comment by therealdrag0 · 2022-10-02 · in Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping -
…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 -
Try https://github.com/apenwarr/blip - built by google fiber guys for exactly this.
comment by jordanthoms · 2016-08-10 · in Building fast.com -
I'm sure you guys are on it, but: See apenwarr's 'Blip' for checking latency in the browser: https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
comment by LukeShu · 2014-07-24 · in Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi -
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…
comment by cantrevealname · 2013-04-27 · in Instant visualization of your Internet latency via JavaScript