Post it at the Forum Windows 95 includes a number of useful tools that will help you monitor your Internet connection.
Ping sends packets to a remote site and measures the time it takes for the packets to return.
By default, a 32 byte long packet is sent 4 times. This example shows a set of pings to 'Yahoo'. This is a special property of Yahoo. The numeric IP address of the server is 204.71.177.70. The last 4 lines list the connection information for the 4 ping attempts.