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Continuous ping utility for monitoring your net connection.
npm install -g cping
cping [hostname]
The hostname
defaults to 8.8.8.8.
:copyright:
cping © 2014+, Rico Sta. Cruz. Released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Rico Sta. Cruz with help from contributors
(list).
ricostacruz.com · GitHub @rstacruz · Twitter @rstacruz
v1.0.0 - Mar 28, 2015
FAQs
Continuous ping utility for the CLI.
The npm package cping receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, cping popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cping demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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