What does 'Ping' mean please.
Horse.trader
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)
TrentSC
> 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.
Roger Mills
Horse.trader <horse....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Yes. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping
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jim
It's the opposite of "pong"
jim
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Excellent, thank you to all those that replied, very useful.
Brian (Huddersfield)
Eeyore
"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
Jon
> 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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Blair
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I was interested myself in finding out 'how'
Blair
Eeyore
Blair wrote:
> "Jon" <sp...@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
> > horse....@ntlworld.com 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
NoNeedToKnow
>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".
Blair
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Bob Eager
<horse....@ntlworld.com> 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??
Yes, that's basically it. It stands for Packet InterNet Groper...
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Roger Mills
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:15:12 UTC, "Horse.trader"
> <horse....@ntlworld.com> 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??
>
> Yes, that's basically it. It stands for Packet InterNet Groper...
So it is said . . . although I'm not convinced that this wasn't invented
after the event to fit the letters of "PING"!
Bob Eager
<watt....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Bob Eager <rd...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:15:12 UTC, "Horse.trader"
> > <horse....@ntlworld.com> 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??
> >
> > Yes, that's basically it. It stands for Packet InterNet Groper...
>
>
> So it is said . . . although I'm not convinced that this wasn't invented
> after the event to fit the letters of "PING"!
Very probably - as with so many things. At least it made it into an RFC,
so it's sort of 'respectable'!
Mark McIntyre
<rd...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:15:12 UTC, "Horse.trader"
><horse....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Is this a sort of send receive test to see how long it takes to get the
>> signal back to it's origin??
>
>Yes, that's basically it. It stands for Packet InterNet Groper...
postfix acronym
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Roderick Stewart
>> > Yes, that's basically it. It stands for Packet InterNet Groper...
>>
>>
>> So it is said . . . although I'm not convinced that this wasn't invented
>> after the event to fit the letters of "PING"!
>
>Very probably - as with so many things. At least it made it into an RFC,
>so it's sort of 'respectable'!
Wikipedia confirms this, giving the procedure a name I hadn't heard
of, but which I think is pretty neat - apparently it's a "backronym".
Rod.