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  • 02-03-2005 10:51pm
    #1
    DamoRed
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭


    Please excuse my ignorance on this matter, but could somebody please explain what pings are and what relevance they are, if any, to ordinary users who are not technically minded.


    Thank You.

    Moderators, please feel free to move this thread to FAQs if necessary.

    Damo


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    #2
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Packet Internet Groper. A program used to test whether a particular network destination is online, by sending an Internet control message protocol (ICMP) echo request and waiting for a response. (Also called packet internet gopher).
    manual.liquidweb.com/chapter3/glossary.html


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    Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    It's a measurement of how long it takes stuff you send across the internet to arrive at its destination. They're almost always measured in milliseconds (ms). You'll only really be intrested in your ping times if you play online games a fair bit.


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    galactus
    Registered Users Posts: 990 ✭✭✭galactus


    Go to a command prompt (Start>Run> cmd) and type the folllowing:

    ping google.com

    you'll be able to see your ping times:


    Pinging google.com [216.239.57.99] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 216.239.57.99: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=242
    Reply from 216.239.57.99: bytes=32 time=225ms TTL=242
    Reply from 216.239.57.99: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=242
    Reply from 216.239.57.99: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=242

    Ping statistics for 216.239.57.99:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 166ms, Maximum = 225ms, Average = 181ms


    Can be useful if you're troubleshooting.


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    #5
    galactus
    Registered Users Posts: 990 ✭✭✭galactus


    Drapper wrote:
    In simple non techie landguage it the amount of time it takes a bit of info/data to get to an adress and back....

    the lower the better..... i.e. gaming and voip


    Isn't that what Moriarty said? I was just elaborating.


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    #6
    DamoRed
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭DamoRed


    Thanks lads, I was just curious. I don't play games on the net, but I'd like to get to grips with VOIP. I've a friend in Sweden who uses it to talk to his family in Estonia. But I'm working on Mac, he's on pc, as I suspect most others are here too.

    I'm off now to get some info on Google about Mac based VOIP software.

    Damo


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