PingStatus For Mac

Given the fact that the vast majority of computer users also have an Internet connection, via an optical fiber, cable or wireless connection, it's easy to understand why most of them would need Internet diagnostics tools.

These type of utilities are designed to make it easier to troubleshoot Internet issues such as packet loss and connection health problems.

PingStatus is a macOS application created to help you keep a close eye on an Internet host, and to monitor your Internet connection's health at all times.

Moreover, the PingStatus utility adds a status bar item to your Mac's menu bar which makes it simple and straightforward to see the ping round trip time to a pre-defined domain.

Besides the ping response delay, PingStatus also displays a connection health icon which will automatically change to let you know that your Mac's Internet connectivity has reached a loss threshold above the one you set in the app's Preferences.

If your Mac's Internet connection goes down or its quality falls below the health standards easily definable in PingStatus' options, the app will notify you using both audio and visual alerts.

If you no longer need to have PingStatus regularly checking if your Mac is still online, you can quickly pause it by clicking the Stop option in the app's status bar menu.

Besides the target host and loss threshold, the Preferences window makes simple to customize the ping interval and timeout values, as well as the delay threshold, in milliseconds.

You can also choose to have PingStatus launched at login, to set the status bar item's look and toggle the Internet connectivity health alerts.

If you have messed up anything in PingStatus' preferences, you can quickly reset them to the default values by clicking the "Restore Defaults" button.

PingStatus worked flawlessly throughout the testing period and, from our point of view, there's only one feature that would make it better: the possibility to choose which network device to use when checking your Internet connection's health.

In a nutshell, the PingStatus app is the tool you want in your Applications folder if you have a temperamental and unstable Internet connection and need to be automatically alerted when it is no longer usable.