“Ping,” a command that was designed – and used for many years – to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame ...

Here in the Oregon HQ for macosxhints.com, we’ve got a few devices on our local network. There are the Macs, of course, and a networked Brother laser printer, the AirPort Base Station, and our (rarely ...

The 'ping' command on most flavors of Unix has a nifty little feature that lets you select which port to ping on. It's handy when troubleshooting network applications. For example, if some wierd app.

If you’re trying to lower ping & reduce latency for gaming – here’s exactly what we’d do to improve your internet connectivity. Ping is effectively your latency between your PC and a server. Latency ...

We recently wrote about the diminishing usability of “ping” and “tracert” due to the use of these commands as components of various types of network attacks. We also expressed our dismay that by ...

We have a customer that has several remote sites that connect to their main office. There is an application that runs that connects to the remote sites, and when a remote site is having connectivity ...