What does 'Ping' mean please.

Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown in
milliseconds.

Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
signal back to it's origin??

Thanks



Brian (Huddersfield)

> Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
> sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown in
> milliseconds.
>
> Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
> signal back to it's origin??

Yup.

Remember in those old war films when the submarine was measuring the
distance to another ship with that audible ping noise? This is the same
sort of thing, hence the name.

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Horse.trader <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
> sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown
> in milliseconds.
>
> Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get
> the signal back to it's origin??
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Brian (Huddersfield)


Yes. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:15:12 GMT, "Horse.trader"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
>sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown in
>milliseconds.
>
>Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
>signal back to it's origin??
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>Brian (Huddersfield)
>

It's the opposite of "pong"

jim

"jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:15:12 GMT, "Horse.trader"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
>>sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown in
>>milliseconds.
>>
>>Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
>>signal back to it's origin??
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>Brian (Huddersfield)
>>
>
> It's the opposite of "pong"
>
> jim
>
>
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Excellent, thank you to all those that replied, very useful.

Brian (Huddersfield)

"Horse.trader" wrote:

> Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
> sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown in
> milliseconds.
>
> Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
> signal back to it's origin??

See "das Boot". (actually everyone on the planet should see it at least once)

The original version used ultrasound.

Graham

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> Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
> sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown in
> milliseconds.
>
> Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
> signal back to it's origin??

Yes.
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Jon

"Jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) et...
> (E-Mail Removed) declared for all the world to hear...
>> Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
>> sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown in
>> milliseconds.
>>
>> Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
>> signal back to it's origin??
>
> Yes.
> --
> Regards
> Jon
I noticed that no one told you 'how to ping'
I was interested myself in finding out 'how'
Blair

Blair wrote:

> "Jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > (E-Mail Removed) declared for all the world to hear...
> >> Just bought an ADSL wireless router etc., and on one if the speed-test
> >> sites, it gives a 'ping' test which gives what I presume a test shown in
> >> milliseconds.
> >>
> >> Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
> >> signal back to it's origin??
> >
> > Yes.
> > --
> I noticed that no one told you 'how to ping'
> I was interested myself in finding out 'how'

Start, Run, "command" <enter> / OK

command processor window opens.........

ping aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd (IP address) <enter> or ping this_domain.com
etc....etc.....

when finished with command processor ......

exit <enter>

Graham

On 2 Mar 2007, "Blair" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I noticed that no one told you 'how to ping'

some routers have a menu option, where one puts in the name or IP
address of a host, and it does the ping for you...

>I was interested myself in finding out 'how'

You'll usually find ping on the command line interface of a PC OS
(there may be similar options on big multi-user systems, but the
odds are they're restricted to administrator/operator users).

So under Windows, get a "Command prompt" (aka MS-DOS window), and
enter 'ping <host>' ( where host might be an IP or hostname -
eg www.bbc.co.uk or 212.58.224.121 ) Similarly under Linux/Unix,
or open a terminal session under Mac OS X. Some web hosts offer
a command line interface (telnet or ssh access) but many have a
block on access to network functions such as ping, traceroute,
and so on, in case someone "makes a nuisance of themself".