re: how to ping a website help wanted
How to Ping a Website
If you are having problems resolving your website, you can ping it to see if it is a problem with your server, or if there is a problem somewhere in the internet as the connection travels from your computer's internet access through to the domain in question.
Here is how to Ping
From the desktop, click start Select Run In the Run box, type command Click OK The DOS window will pop up. At the C:\WINDOWS> prompt type ping www.yourdomainname.com and press enter. You will see some results pass through the screen. It will tell you if there were any packets lost in the transfer (0% loss is what you want to see). It will also tell you the average speed, in milliseconds. To close the DOS window, type exit at the C:\WINDOWS> prompt and press enter.
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I tried the above and it timed out is HC 203.153.243.254