This may be the only article you’ll ever read containing the professional advice: Only try this trick at home. Stressing your home network is a good method for diagnosing weak links and potential network bottlenecks in your LAN. A number of commercial suites are available for this task along with a variety of hardware and software monitoring tools. The price of most of these packages put them out of reach for home use. Fortunately, one of the most effective tools for stress diagnostics is a simple utility included with every copy of the Windows operating system. ping –t 192.168.1.1 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64 The first portion of the response indicates that the destination machine is connected to the network and responsive. The second portion indicates the packet size sent and received. The time entry indicates the amount of time the response took in milliseconds. The final, TTL (time to live) entry indicates the number of milliseconds the packet exists before a “Host not found” response is delivered to the originating computer. Tips Warnings Writer Bio
