How To Ping An IP Address From A PC Or Mobile Device

With today’s high demand for internet bandwidth, it is important to know if your network connection is working properly or not. If you ever have problems with your connection, the safest way to test it is to use the “ping” command.

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When you have trouble accessing certain websites, you can quickly find out if it is on their part or if you are having some connection issues. For example, you might not be able to properly stream a Netflix movie but you can log in and browse just fine. That is exactly the scenario when a ping might be useful, allowing you to determine the source of the problem.

How to Ping an IP Address from a Windows 10 Device

Doing a ping test from Windows 10 is relatively easy. All you need to do is open the Command Prompt app and type in the proper command. Here’s how it is done:

1. Press the Windows key on your keyboard then start typing cmd.
   
2. In the search results, you should see the Command Prompt app. Click it. When the Command Prompt window opens, you will notice it is a bit different than your usual windows. It has that old vibe to it, using a black background and white text.
   
3. Type “ping,” add one space, and type an IP address or domain name you want to test your connection with. When you type all that, hit “Enter” on your keyboard.
   
   
4. For example, you can enter “ping google.com” to test your connection to Google. If you know the server’s IP address you can use that as well. To test the connection between your computer and your home router, enter the router’s IP address. In most cases, your router will have the default address of 192.168.1.1. To ping it, you will have to type “ping 192.168.1.1” and press Enter.

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Once you initiate the ping, your computer will send a test data packet to the desired host and will wait for a response. To make sure the test is relevant, the computer will send four pings. Once the response arrives, you will see the results of the test in the Command Prompt window.

Right beneath your ping command, you will see the reply from the server you have been pinging. This shows how many bytes each packet had, and how fast the response was in milliseconds.

Below that section, you will see the test’s statistics. These show how many packets your computer had sent, how many it received back, and the number of packets that got lost due to poor connection. The good test will have four packets both sent and received, with zero lost packets.

At the bottom, the time statistics section shows you how quickly the data went back and forth, also in milliseconds. You will get the minimum and maximum round trip times, as well as the average time.

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