Ping

Ping means to send a packet ( a piece of electronic information ) to a remote host, if the remote host is alive it will bounce the ping packet back to the source computer. It is mainly used to troubleshoot internet and network connections to see if a computer or internet device is online.

How do I do it?
Its pretty simple, in Windows 95/98/ME go to Start > Run > command, for windows NT/2000/XP type cmd instead of command. When the window appears type ping <remote host> ( ie; ping www.webmonky.co.uk ). Ping sends 4 packets to the remote host, if the remote host is alive, it should bounce the packets back and ping will say how long it took in milliseconds for the packets to get from your host to the remote host and back, it will also show if there was any packet loss .
Here is an example:

c:\ping www.google.com

Pinging www.google.com [216.239.39.100] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.239.39.100: bytes=32 time=117ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.239.39.100: bytes=32 time=129ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.239.39.100: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.239.39.100: bytes=32 time=241ms TTL=49

Ping statistics for 216.239.39.100:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 116ms, Maximum = 241ms, Average = 150ms

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