Gping – ping, but with a graph • Hacker News Board

Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph

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Post by jmholla » Sun, Jul 02, 2023, 3:27 PM UTC

nomel wrote: post #30

Off topic, but it seems that we’ve really stagnated, on the terminal front, especially considering how many clients have full GPU acceleration these days. How has there not been some basic image/data steaming built in, after all of these decades? Why am I writing scripts that parse human text output?

There's sixel[0], but not every terminal supports it.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph

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Post by NoZebra120vClip » Sun, Jul 02, 2023, 5:43 PM UTC

I miss "bing" which was not a search engine, but a "stochastic bandwidth measurement tool". It could tell you the bandwidth between any two network links regardless of limited bandwidth between you and the targets. I could measure T-3 or OC-48 backbone link speeds while I myself was connected, several hops away, on a 33.6Kbps modem link.

It did not last long and it seemed to be abandoned, and popular Linux distros stopped carrying it as a package. I'm not aware of another tool that can perform the same measurements.

Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph

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Post by Deuterium » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 3:27 PM UTC

I have a quick and dirty CLI that just runs `ping` in a loop and repeats on the terminal proportional to the ping time. It's fantastic and I use it all the time. I also have it update the terminal title so it's useful even if it's not in focus.