Articles in this category What is a Ping? A Ping is a signal sent to a server that requests a response. The two primary purposes are: To check if the host is available and To measure how long the server takes to respond. How to perform a ping test on a Windows PC On a Windows-based PC. The steps will be similar on most versions. You can perform a ping test in the following way. Click the Start button Whilst the Start Menu is showing, type in Cmd and click the ... How to perform a ping test on Mac OS Go to the search function. And search for the "Network Utility" How to perform a ping test on a Linux based PC Launch the Terminal application Type in ping axxess.co.za -c 10 and press enter. (the -c states that we will ping axxess.co.za a specified number of times. In this case, we typed in 10 to ping axxess....
