In one of my previous working experiences as a network engineer, ping command came in very handy when assign a new or available IP address to PC or servers. I utilized traceroute to determine the speed of a signal or data sent from the command prompt to another PC/server is called packets and they are usually considered to be chopped chunks or small pieces of that data that is broken down by the internet then moved in a series of hops through a network between two points or in this case to another PC/server. When it came to using both commands on websites Google.com, Randex.ru and Rakuten.co.jp, there was a slight difference in speed and delay due to location and the destination. Google.com mainly being a U.S company had results come back fractions of seconds faster that going around the world to Russia and Japan when using the ping command while traceroute came back faster providing the speed results for google.com but took seconds later to deliver results of that command sent to Russia and Japan.
Ping and traceroute can be used to check your internet capability. Quiet often your internet service provider (ISP) may not be down when trying to access a particular website or any other site. Using a ping or traceroute command can also determine whether if that website or domain is up and running. If you send both commands to a website (Amazon.com) and they came back with the error message “request timed out” then Amazon is most likely to be down. Another reason when you can get an error massage is the recipient site’s security software such as a firewall is blocking your IP/MAC address from gaining access. One last scenario maybe the physical connection in a network cable, where one of the wirings may be faulty.
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