Laboratory Exercises 4. Here we will be using a few network utilities to discover information about your network and also do some testing. May need to connect a network drive to here if possible. PING Short for Packet Internet Groper, a utility to determine whether a specific IP address is accessible. It works by sending a packet to the specified address and waiting for a reply.
PING is used primarily to troubleshoot Internet connections.
There are many freeware and shareware PING utilities available for personal computers. Did this ping take a longer or shorter time or longer time. Try a freeware, windows type ping program called TJPing on a few sites. Program on course download site at jasper.cqu.edu.au. Apart from testing ping can give valuable information about network traffic and speed.