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.SYNOPSIS

Checks the ping latency

.DESCRIPTION

This PowerShell script measures the ping roundtrip times from the local computer to 10 Internet servers.

.PARAMETER hosts

Specifies the hosts to check, seperated by commata (default is: amazon.com,bing.com,cnn.com,dropbox.com,facebook.com,github.com,google.com,live.com,twitter.com,youtube.com)

.EXAMPLE

PS> ./check-ping

✅ Ping latency is 29ms average (13ms...109ms, 0 loss)

.LINK

https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell

.NOTES

Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0

#>

param([string]$hosts = "amazon.com,bing.com,cnn.com,dropbox.com,facebook.com,github.com,google.com,live.com,twitter.com,youtube.com")

try {

Write-Host "✅ Ping latency is" -noNewline

$hostsArray = $hosts.Split(",")

$t = $hostsArray | foreach {

(New-Object Net.NetworkInformation.Ping).SendPingAsync($_, 250)

}

[Threading.Tasks.Task]::WaitAll($t)

[int]$min = 9999999

[int]$max = [int]$avg = [int]$successCount = [int]$lossCount = 0

foreach($ping in $t.Result) {

if ($ping.Status -eq "Success") {

[int]$latency = $ping.RoundtripTime

if ($latency -lt $min) { $min = $Latency }

if ($latency -gt $max) { $max = $Latency }

$avg += $latency

$successCount++

} else {

$lossCount++

}

}

$avg /= $successCount

Write-Host " $($avg)ms average ($($min)ms...$($max)ms, $lossCount loss)"

exit 0 # success

} catch {

"⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"

exit 1

}