sure, you are pinging something like 10 machines.
if they all fail the ping, it takes some time...
oh...
and some new pings are already added to the queye.
add this line to the start of pingEmAll() UDF:
$Timer.onTimer = ''

and then to the end of it:
$Timer.onTimer = 'PingEmAll()'
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