How to Ping a Website

If you are having problems resolving your website, you can ping it to see if it is a problem with your server, or if there is a problem somewhere in the internet as the connection travels from your computer's internet access through to the domain in question. Here is how to Ping
1. From the desktop, click start
2. Select Run
3. In the Run box, type command
4. Click OK
5. The DOS window will pop up. At the C:\WINDOWS>
prompt type ping www.yourdomainname.com and press enter.
6. You will see some results pass
through the screen.
7. It will tell you if there were any packets lost in the transfer (0% loss is what you want to see).
8. It will also tell you the average
speed, in milliseconds.
9. To close the DOS window, type exit at the C:\WINDOWS> prompt and press enter.