Ping Online Tool

This online ping tool return ping result from Linux server. You can choose how much time to ping a domain name, and the interval between two ping query.

Notice: You need to ping with www prefix for some (not common) domains such as www.microsoft.com and www.quora.com. If you have no luck with your query, try to add www. in the front and try again. This happens because of how the domain owners set up the DNS.

Have you ever stuck long delay in a Skype conversation? Have you ever frustrated about the latency during a online game session? You definitely should test the Internet delay time from your home to the website.

Ping calculates the round-trip time (from you click a link to the content return from web server) from your home to any web server with a public IP address or a domain name. It also tells you how many packets has been transmitted, how many packets has been received, and how many packets has been loss.

For online gaming, the ping latency to the game server should be kept under 100ms, it will be unbearable if the ping latency is over 200ms. For regular web browsing activities, the ping latency has less effect on user experience. You should keep in mind, ping latency and Internet speed is 2 different concept, high latency doesn't mean you are stuck at 480p resolution Netflix streaming, although they are often found correlated.

There are a few ways to lower your home's ping latency, the heavy Internet traffic has negative effect on ping latency, so Internet is faster and has lower package loss rate at night compare to daytime. A more fundamental strategy is to switch your ISP (Internet service provider).

Wikipedia (ping): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility)

RFC 792 (ping): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc792

Ping in Linux(Ubuntu): https://linux.die.net/man/8/ping

Ping in Windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/ping

NAME
       ping - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts

SYNOPSIS
       ping  [-aAbBdDfhLnOqrRUvV46] [-c count] [-F flowlabel] [-i interval] [-I interface] [-l preload]
       [-m mark] [-M pmtudisc_option] [-N nodeinfo_option] [-w deadline] [-W timeout] [-p pattern]
       [-Q tos] [-s packetsize] [-S sndbuf] [-t ttl] [-T timestamp option] [hop ...] destination

root@instance-1:/var/log/apache2# ping -c 4 -i 1 facebook.com
PING facebook.com (157.240.22.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-01-sjc3.facebook.com (157.240.22.35): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=19.1 ms
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-01-sjc3.facebook.com (157.240.22.35): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=18.6 ms
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-01-sjc3.facebook.com (157.240.22.35): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=18.9 ms
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-01-sjc3.facebook.com (157.240.22.35): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=18.7 ms

--- facebook.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 18.697/18.857/19.102/0.189 ms
    

import socket
import time


def ping(ip_or_domain, count):
    for i in range(1, count):
        try:
            start_time = time.time()
            socket.gethostbyname(ip_or_domain)
            end_time = time.time()
            total_time = round((end_time - start_time) * 1000, 2)
            print('{0} is reachable: icmp_seq={1} time={2}ms'.format(ip_or_domain, i, total_time))
        except socket.herror:
            print('{0} is NOT reachable'.format(ip_or_domain))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # ping ip address
    ping("93.184.216.34", 4)
    # ping domain
    ping("coding.tools", 2)

-------------------
93.184.216.34 is reachable: icmp_seq=1 time=19ms
93.184.216.34 is reachable: icmp_seq=2 time=31ms
93.184.216.34 is reachable: icmp_seq=3 time=15ms
93.184.216.34 is reachable: icmp_seq=4 time=13ms
coding.tools is reachable: icmp_seq=1 time=14ms
coding.tools is reachable: icmp_seq=2 time=7ms
    

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;

public class Ping {
    public static void ping(String ip_or_domain, int count) throws IOException {
        InetAddress remote_host = InetAddress.getByName(ip_or_domain);
        // send ping request "count" times in total
        for (int i = 1; i <= count; i++) {
            // Sending ping request
            long start_time = System.currentTimeMillis();
            boolean is_reachable = remote_host.isReachable(5000);
            long end_time = System.currentTimeMillis();
            long total_time = end_time - start_time;
            if (is_reachable)
                System.out.println(ip_or_domain + " is reachable: icmp_seq=" + i + " time=" + total_time + "ms");
            else
                System.out.println(ip_or_domain + "is NOT reachable");
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        // ping ip address
        ping("93.184.216.34", 4);
        // ping domain
        ping("coding.tools", 2);
    }
}

-------------------
93.184.216.34 is reachable: icmp_seq=1 time=19ms
93.184.216.34 is reachable: icmp_seq=2 time=19ms
93.184.216.34 is reachable: icmp_seq=3 time=15ms
93.184.216.34 is reachable: icmp_seq=4 time=14ms
coding.tools is reachable: icmp_seq=1 time=8ms
coding.tools is reachable: icmp_seq=2 time=3ms