Graphical ping tool:

Ping is a graphical version of the common Windows networking utility "Ping" that allows you to test connection with a remote computer. It's main purpose is to test connectivity between you're host, and a remote host. It will also report to you the delay time of sending and receiving simple messages between the 2 hosts. This can be useful for troubleshooting timeouts when connecting to a remote machine.

To run ping, select the Test connection (Ping) menu item from the Network menu or press . A Ping dialog window will be displayed:

First you need to enter a host name or IP address in the Host name/address field. You can keep the default packet size, timeout, and count (number of pings to send). Now you simple click the "Ping" button . First ping will lookup the hostname, so it may take a few seconds to start, then you should see 3 lines indicating the ping status.

Other toolbar buttons:

- stop scanning;

- save result to text file;

- show print preview window;

- print ping result;

- clear result window content.

If you see timeout in the results, then either you need to increase your timeout value, check your Internet connection, or your server is down. Otherwise you should see the time in milliseconds that it took to send and receive an ICMP message from your web server.

The timeout value is in milliseconds, so 1000 milliseconds is equal to 1 second. In general, 1000 milliseconds should be more than enough time to do a ping. The packet size is good for testing how long it takes to send larger packets, for instance, if you know that you usually send and receive large packets of 4096 bytes (4k), then you can use that for your size, and increase your timeout value, then see exactly how long it takes to send/receive a packet of that size.

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