This is so old that warpig must have figured it out by now. ping is so _easy_.
First, you usually need to open up a terminal. In the terminal, type something like
No, that's to find out about ping. If you want to ping a location, say six times just to get an average "sounding," you would type something like
Code:
ping -c6 time.apple.com
This sends packets of information to time.apple.com (Apple's time server) six times (-c6). This is what I got a few moments ago.
Code:
PING time.apple.com (17.254.0.28): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 17.254.0.28: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=43.003 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.28: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=38.393 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.28: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=37.581 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.28: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=38.773 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.28: icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=38.043 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.28: icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=54.22 ms
--- time.apple.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 37.581/41.668/54.22 ms
That proves that:
1) you are connected to the internet
2) that Apple's time server is up and active
3) it takes an average of 41.668 milliseconds for the round trip between me and Apple's time server.
bon apetit
bucky