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Given that the vast majority of computer users are also connected to the Internet via fiber optic, cable, or wireless connections, it’s easy to see why most of them need Internet diagnostic tools.

These types of utilities are designed to more easily troubleshoot Internet problems, such as packet loss and connection health issues.

Monitor Internet hosts of your choice

Ping status is a macOS application designed to help you keep an eye on your internet hosts and monitor the health of your internet connection at all times.

Additionally, the PingStatus utility adds a status bar item to your Mac’s menu bar, which makes viewing ping round-trip times for predefined domains simple and straightforward.

In addition to ping response delays, PingStatus also displays a connection health icon that changes automatically to let you know that your Mac’s internet connection has reached a loss threshold above the threshold you set in the application preferences.

Visual and audio alerts for internet connection health issues

The app will notify you with audio and visual alerts if your Mac’s Internet connection is interrupted or if the quality falls below a healthy standard easily definable in the PingStatus options.

Also, if you no longer need to have PingStatus periodically check to see if your Mac is still online, you can quickly pause it by clicking the Stop option in the application’s status bar menu.

In addition to target hosts and loss thresholds, the Preferences window allows easy customization of ping interval and timeout values, as well as latency thresholds in milliseconds.

Additionally, you can choose to start PingStatus on login to set the appearance of status bar items and toggle Internet connection health alerts.

Real-time and unobtrusive tool to monitor your internet connection

If you mess up anything in the PingStatus preferences, you can quickly reset them to defaults by clicking the “Restore Defaults” button.

PingStatus worked flawlessly throughout the test period, and from our point of view there is only one feature that could have made it better: the possibility to choose which network device to use when checking the health of your Internet connection.

In short, the PingStatus app is the tool you want to have in your Applications folder if you have an unstable internet connection and need an automatic alert when it’s no longer available.