What is Ping in Networking ?? What does it do ?? Let's Know
Your ISP or broadband company sells the internet to you every kilobyte or megabit speed in every second. There is also an important term other than KBPs or MBPS in any Internet connection, which is Ping or latency. Actually "ping" is a measurement standard, which helps you to measure how much time it takes you to connect to your server from the client's desktop (laptop, desktop, tablet, mobile) to the internet server. You can also call Ping only a command line, which is on every major operating system. For example, you can test "ping" by opening the command prompt in Windows PC.
Where is the ping used ?
"Ping" means that when connecting between two computers, it does not measure how many times each packet receives from one computer to another computer.
You may have noticed that when you click on a website to open it, it does not load well but it takes a while to click on another page once the website is open, and this is the latency.
This latency of connecting between two computers is measured by ping. Many people think "ping" and lettensis the same, actually the two things are the same, but they are not the same. "Ping" is a map to measure latency and "latency" is the time between connecting between server and client.
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How important is ping-rate?
I have already mentioned that the importance of ping is most often to connect with a server or to a web site. Suppose your office has internet speed of 20 Mbps, but that connection's ping-rate is 200 ms (milli-second). Suppose your home internet speed is 10 Mbps but this connection's ping-rate is 20ms, which is the best? It is not possible to give the right answer to this question, depending on the ping-rate or bandwidth speed. It will depend on what you are doing with the Internet connection.
Why is ping-rate less?
A lot of things depend on different ISPs or different server ping-rates or response time or latency. If the server is too far away from the web server you are trying to receive, then the ping-rate can increase. If the fiber optic cable, such as the connection between servers and your computer, is bad, then the ping-rate can increase. If your broadband connection has a ping-rate of 1 MS, then you can connect to any server with 1 MS ping-rate, but not so. If the server has a higher ping-rate or the server is too far away, then you also get 1 ms ping-rate.
Is Zero Ping-Rate Possible?
Zero ping-rate is never possible to answer one word. According to physics, it takes some time to come from anywhere, from anywhere to computer packets, from computer to computer. No matter how close your server is, even if your home server or a computer in your local area network pings, it will take 1 to 2 milliseconds to respond.
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