Ping a website or another online server to test your computer's connection to that computer and measure the time it takes for data packets to travel there and back. By default, the ping command sends ...

The Command Prompt can't function as an Internet browser, and you can't really open a website from the command line without launching a browser, but it has some useful tools. One such tool is the Ping ...

Lifehacker reader Paladin writes in with some smart command line-fu for running quick commands using command line switches: Whenever I want to do a quick "ping google.com" to see whether my network ...