Ping in Windows XP

1. Open the command window by clicking START, then RUN. Type CMD, and hit Enter or click OK.

2. Type "ping" in the Command Window.

3. Hit the space bar once.

4. Type the IP or website address that you want to ping. For example, if you want to ping eBay, type "www.ebay.com" after the space. If you want to ping your Router, it might be "192.168.1.1"

5. Hit "Enter." If the website is up and actively responding, you receive replies back from the server that you pinged with the following information:
The IP address
The number of Bytes sent
The time it took in milliseconds
The TTL is Time to Live (This indicated the number of "hops" back from the computer pinged from that computers initial TTL value.)



10. Analyze the information. The lower the round trip number in milliseconds, the better. The higher the round trip number in milliseconds, the higher the latency, which may indicate a network problem between your computer and the server you pinged.