How to do a ping test (Instructions for Mac & PC)

How to Ping on a Mac computer

Navigate to your Utilities folder.  Applications > Utilities. Find and click on Terminal. In the terminal window type the following commands:

ping -c30 192.168.2.1
wait till it’s finished, then type
ping -c30 8.8.8.8

Note the percent loss for both ping tests

ping-on-mac


How to Ping on a PC (Windows 7 and later)

Click the start menu and type:  cmd

Click on the “command prompt” icon or simply hit enter. In the DOS window type the following commands:

ping -c30 192.168.2.1
wait till it’s finished, then type
ping -c30 8.8.8.8

Note the percent loss for both ping tests

ping-pc