https://zxc.sx/tags/ping/ Recent content in ping on zxc.sx Hugo -- 0.118.2 en-us Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0500 https://zxc.sx/posts/measure-network-stability/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0500 https://zxc.sx/posts/measure-network-stability/ Speed tests tell you almost nothing about why your calls freeze or your games rubber-band. A connection can do 300 Mbps download and still be unusable if it drops packets every few minutes. What you actually need to see is stability over time: ping, jitter, and packet loss logged continuously, not a single snapshot. The tool: pingpackettest.com pingpackettest.com is a free, continuous connection monitor built for exactly this. Instead of one-off speed measurements, it sends small probe packets to test servers near major gaming datacenters at a steady interval and plots the result live: