Friday, February 25, 2011

Your Isp Has Asked You To Do A Ping Test

In windows 7 - (search programes and files) : Key in "cmd"
In Xp Go to Start then Run
A Dos box will apear, type in "ping google.com"
This will send and receive 4 packets, take note of the average speed in ms (milleseconds) nad the amount of lost packets.
If you want to do longer test use "ping google.com /n 50"
This will send & receive 50 packets
In some cases If you are having major internet dropouts you may be asked to do 1000 packet test, this may take some time. Use -  "ping google.com /n 1000"

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