Saturday 5 October 2013

Using Android phone to ping site

At bizshared.blogspot.com, we explore technological ideas that would benefit you readers. This article is focused on network maintenance, diagnostics, security on my PC and more specifically how to pinging a site to test my latency from my SG3 was useful, testing when/where I get the best latency on my mobile data network.
1.) Download "Android Terminal Emulator" by from the Play Store, there are apps dedicated for pinging specifically; however I like to use the terminal/cmd prompt whenever I can. Manual work seems to give me the results I am looking for and nothing extra! (Most of you probably already have the Terminal Emulator downloaded.)

Link to app on play.google.com:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...roidterm&hl=en

2) Open the terminal. 
Type in the command: ping example.com
Note: example.com is a placeholder; insert any website you want to ping here.


If you do not want to ping the site infinitely, then...

Type the following command: ping -c4 example.com
-c being a counter and 4 being the number of times you want to send a ping packet to the server. Four is the default for the ping function from the Windows Command Prompt so if you are used to that, then use four.

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