Pinging another device on a network

Windows 95/98/ME

Click Start, RUN  and at the open prompt type command and press enter. OR Look for the MS-DOS Prompt ICON and click it.

When the MS-Dos Window appears you will see at prompt like the following:

    C:\Windows\>

   enter ping 192.168.1.1 as shown below

 C:\Windows\>ping 192.168.1.1

You will get a reply back like this if the ping is successful

 
Microsoft(R) Windows 98
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1998.


C:\WINDOWS\> ping 192.168.1.1

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=255

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milliseconds:
Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 7ms, Average = 5ms

C:\WINDOWS\>

If the ping is not successful then you will see a screen like this:

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milliseconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Note:

If you have a computer network with several computers attached to a nub or switch you should be able to ping different computers (devices) on your LAN by using the IP address of any other device.