All a reply to an ICMP echo request means is that "this IP address exists". Be wary of results coming from a company trying to sell you something. They can, do, will embellish perfectly normal things ...

While ICMP is required for IP network traffic redirection and pinging hosts on your LAN or WAN, ICMP can also pose a security concern. David Davis tells you about the basics of ICMP and how to filter ...

Derek Schauland explains how the newly added Sysinterals PSPing utility provides an easy ping test, but also comes with additional features. The PS utilities in the Sysinternals Suite from Microsoft ...

The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...

The line monitoring system allows you to track the performance of your broadband connection in terms of latency and packet loss. Latency is the time it takes for a piece of information (a ‘packet’) to ...