“Ping,” a command that was designed – and used for many years – to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame ...
We recently wrote about the diminishing usability of “ping” and “tracert” due to the use of these commands as components of various types of network attacks. We also expressed our dismay that by ...
Why is it that when I ping Google.com I get about 28ms - 30ms, however when I run a tracert, it takes 98 - 100ms to hit my first hop, alone! It's just my router, 192.168.1.254... Yet when I ping this ...