It's often useful to gain a quick measure of a network's "real-world" performance. Pinging is a technique in which you send a predetermined amount of data to a specific IP address on your own network ...

The mean ping time reveals the typical round-trip duration. Standard deviation indicates how much ping times vary from the mean. More pings may mean more accurate results, but the distribution of ping ...

If you've used networking commands on Windows, such as ping and tracert, you might wonder if you can use them on Linux, whether on its own or part of WSL. Fortunately, you can. I remember sitting in a ...