# Particle ping sending false positives

**URL:** https://community.particle.io/t/particle-ping-sending-false-positives/51635
**Category:** Cloud
**Tags:** boron, cellular
**Created:** [August 12, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/particle-ping-sending-false-positives/51635 "2019-08-12T04:21:44Z")
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### Author: ![navjot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f08c70/32.png) [@navjot](https://community.particle.io/u/navjot)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/particle-ping-sending-false-positives/51635/1 "2019-08-12T04:21:44Z")

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Hi,

I want a way to be notified when one of my Borons has lost cellular connection. My solution was to create a separate Python script that [pings](https://docs.particle.io/reference/device-cloud/api/#ping-a-device) all of my Borons every few minutes using the Cloud API call and notifies me when a ping returns a False. However, I’ve noticed the following issue with my approach:

**The cloud API ping call tends to return false positives. Specifically, I turn power off to my Boron and the pings still return True every now and then for the first ~15mins after the Boron is off. Is pinging not the best way to check if my Boron has cellular connection?**

Separately, I’m thinking of instead doing a variable call rather than pings to check for connectivity as that might be more reliable for every call. Unfortunately, that will consume more data.