Post #4 - Ping

Due to specific circumstances, I never actually got to make my post for Ping or Traceroute. I have decided that I'm going to focus on Ping for this post because I was unable to do the Traceroute.

It was requested that we "ping" websites to see what would happen when we did so. This is what came up on my screen when I did the pinging.

I had decided to use Google, Facebook, and a random Australian website that I had found on google because it was requested that we use a website from a different country.

I never made my post, however, because my Pings took a lot longer than it did for other people. While other posts were getting somewhere within 14 seconds, I was getting almost minutes to get the pings to go all the way through. For lack of looking like an idiot, I couldn't even do the replies because I didn't understand what was happening on my end.

Thankfully, once I got a bit of help understanding these, I was able to see that it was just my computer being slow. I was fully able to connect to the websites and it was successfully going sending a receiving signals between the website and my computer. I was able to learn how my computer knows what website to go to because it was able to bring up the specific IP address used for each website on it's own.