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 ...

Ping is a command line tool, available in many operating systems, that you can use to test whether your computer or device can reach a destination computer through the network and/or the internet.

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 ...