This PowerShell script measures the ping roundtrip times from the local computer to other computers (10 Internet servers by default).
PS> ./check-ping.ps1 [[-hosts] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]
-hosts <String>
Specifies the hosts to check, seperated by commata (default is: amazon.com,bing.com,cnn.com,dropbox.com,github.com,google.com,live.com,meta.com,x.com,youtube.com)
Required? false
Position? 1
Default value bing.com,cnn.com,dropbox.com,github.com,google.com,ibm.com,live.com,meta.com,x.com,youtube.com
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
[<CommonParameters>]
This script supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction,
WarningVariable, OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable.
PS> ./check-ping.ps1
✅ Online with 18ms latency average (13ms...109ms, 0/10 ping loss)
Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0
https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Checks the ping latency
.DESCRIPTION
This PowerShell script measures the ping roundtrip times from the local computer to other computers (10 Internet servers by default).
.PARAMETER hosts
Specifies the hosts to check, seperated by commata (default is: amazon.com,bing.com,cnn.com,dropbox.com,github.com,google.com,live.com,meta.com,x.com,youtube.com)
.EXAMPLE
PS> ./check-ping.ps1
✅ Online with 18ms latency average (13ms...109ms, 0/10 ping loss)
.LINK
https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
.NOTES
Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0
#>
param([string]$hosts = "bing.com,cnn.com,dropbox.com,github.com,google.com,ibm.com,live.com,meta.com,x.com,youtube.com")
try {
$hostsArray = $hosts.Split(",")
$parallelTasks = $hostsArray | foreach {
(New-Object Net.NetworkInformation.Ping).SendPingAsync($_,750)
}
[int]$min = 9999999
[int]$max = [int]$avg = [int]$success = 0
[int]$total = $hostsArray.Count
[Threading.Tasks.Task]::WaitAll($parallelTasks)
foreach($ping in $parallelTasks.Result) {
if ($ping.Status -ne "Success") { continue }
$success++
[int]$latency = $ping.RoundtripTime
$avg += $latency
if ($latency -lt $min) { $min = $latency }
if ($latency -gt $max) { $max = $latency }
}
[int]$loss = $total - $success
if ($success -ne 0) {
$avg /= $success
Write-Host "✅ Online with $($avg)ms latency average ($($min)ms...$($max)ms, $loss/$total ping loss)"
} else {
Write-Host "⚠️ Offline ($loss/$total ping loss)"
}
exit 0 # success
} catch {
"⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
exit 1
}
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