26 px tall, drawn in the shell's bar font. Four display modes, all six states. Colour is the whole message: you should know your connection went bad without reading a number.
MODE A INDEX · DEFAULT
94
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MODE B LIVE LATENCY
9 ms
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MODE C LIVE SPARKLINE
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DEGRADED WAN LEG SLOW
61
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OUTAGE ROUTER OK, WAN DEAD
2m 14s
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SPEED TEST RUNNING PROGRESS ON THE WIDGET
386 ↓
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TOOLTIP ON HOVER
Excitel · 94 excellent local 1.2 ms · wan 8.4 ms · 0.0% loss
CLICK
Opens the panel. Middle-click runs a speed test.
NOTIFICATION
Fires on outage start and recovery, with the leg that failed named.