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A 'ping' is a basic network test that will send messages across a network to a computer and measure the time lapsed from sending to receiving the messages. It will record any packet loss and average trip times. The ping test is testing UDP protocol of the TCP/IP stack. UDP compared to TCP does not re-transmit aso when a package is lost or dropped, this can tell us something. A very small percentage of packet loss may not be something to worry about. Large amounts of packet loss could be a symptom of a hardware or network configuration issue.
In a successful test:
If you are seeing Request timed out messages this indicates packet loss. A small percentage of packet loss is typically not something to worry about. Ensure you are testing with a large enough packet size as a standard ping test may not show a network issue as 32 bytes is a tiny packet as seen below.
3/20/2020 12:30:37 PM - Reply from 172.217.160.100: bytes=32 time=430ms TTL=43 3/20/2020 12:30:38 PM - Reply from 172.217.160.100: bytes=32 time=470ms TTL=43 3/20/2020 12:30:39 PM - Reply from 172.217.160.100: bytes=32 time=458ms TTL=43 3/20/2020 12:30:43 PM - Request timed out. 3/20/2020 12:30:45 PM - Reply from 172.217.160.100: bytes=32 time=456ms TTL=43 3/20/2020 12:30:46 PM - Reply from 172.217.160.100: bytes=32 time=498ms TTL=43