Canadian Ping Monitor

Canadian Ping Monitor is a tiny and portable piece of kit that enables you to send the ping command to up to 30 domains at a time, in order to compare response times. It can be scheduled to automatically send email notifications on a regular basis.
The program doesn't include complicated options or customization preferences, making it accessible to all types of users.

No installation required

Since it's wrapped in a portable package, you can drop the app files in a custom location on the hard disk and just click the executable to launch Canadian Ping Monitor.
There's also the possibility to save it to a USB flash drive in order to directly run it on any computer with minimum effort. Plus, it doesn't add new entries to the Windows registry. Just remember to run the tool with administrative rights to prevent errors.

Add custom servers to ping

As far as the interface is concerned, the utility adopts a classical window with a neatly organized structure, where you can explore a list of predefined domains that you can ping. This server list is recorded in a text documents, which you can edit, in order to use custom servers.

Analyze ping responses

You can click a button to send the ping command to all domains, and patiently wait for the task to finish. The main app window quickly reveals the ping success rate, ping time, number of failed attempts, time, duration, length, TTl, and average time for each host.

Send emails and take screenshots

It's possible to stop the scanning operation, reset the counters to default, set up email notifications for ping success rates, as well as take a snapshot of the whole frame to automatically save it as a PNG image file placed in the same location as Canadian Ping Monitor.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the application didn't hang, crash or prompt error dialogs. It carried out scan jobs in record time while using low CPU and RAM.
To sum it up, Canadian Ping Monitor provides you with a fast and easy-to-use method for pinging multiple hosts at the same time. It's free and can be asked to send email notifications automatically. Thanks to its intuitive interface and options, it can be handled by all user levels.