The request hangs.
Find the hold-up.
A package install crawls or an API stops responding. Pip helps you check the route from your router to the internet, then test the host you’re trying to reach.
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The download is fast. The call still stutters.
You can have plenty of bandwidth and still feel every delay on a call. Pip compares latency while the line is idle and busy, then gives you a bufferbloat grade to help explain what happens when traffic builds up.
When a request won’t finish, start with the live readings to see whether the trouble begins at your router or beyond it. Then compare DNS resolvers, check IPv4 and IPv6, or test the particular host your project needs to reach.
- between live connection probes
- 2s
- DNS resolvers compared in diagnostics
- 4
- bufferbloat grade from each speed test
- A+–F
Find where the trouble starts.
Separate probes to your router and an internet target help locate connection problems. Live latency, jitter and packet loss show how the line is behaving.
See what happens on a busy line.
Run a speed test for download, upload and latency under load. A bufferbloat grade helps explain why a fast connection can still feel slow.
Check the host you actually need.
Test DNS, TCP and HTTPS for a host you enter. Broader diagnostics compare DNS resolvers and check IPv4 and IPv6 separately.
Investigate a request that won’t finish.
Read the Network guideStart with the live connection view.
Read the connection summary and follow latency, jitter and loss between your machine, router and internet target.
Put your connection under load.
Start a speed test when you want one. Compare idle latency with latency while downloading and uploading.
Investigate the next clue.
Run diagnostics for a broader picture or enter a host to check the service you’re trying to reach.
A closer look at what Network measures.
Live probes, speed tests and diagnostics answer different questions. Knowing how each check works helps you choose the next one when a connection feels off.
- Will Pip run speed tests in the background?
- Speed tests run only when you start them. A test can move a few hundred megabytes, so Pip leaves that choice to you. The live connection view uses separate, regular probes to your router and an internet target every two seconds. Diagnostics and checks against a host you enter are also on demand.
- What does the bufferbloat grade tell me?
- The grade, from A+ to F, describes how latency behaves while your connection is busy. Pip measures idle latency and latency under download and upload load. If delay rises sharply under load, the connection can deliver high speeds while still making calls or interactive work feel unresponsive. That’s the behaviour the grade helps explain.
- What happens if my network blocks ping?
- Where ICMP probes are filtered, Pip falls back to a TCP measurement and labels it accordingly, so you can see how the reading was obtained. Lost probes appear as gaps in the chart rather than zero latency. For more context, diagnostics compare four DNS resolvers and check IPv4 and IPv6 separately.
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