ping -t website does this cmd command speed up browsing?..
By geniusvinz
@geniusvinz (419)
Philippines
September 22, 2011 7:33am CST
if you type for example: ping -t www.facebook.com in the command prompt, will it speed up facebook browsing?..what do you think?..
4 responses
@owlwings (43914)
• Cambridge, England
22 Sep 11
The ping command sends a small packet of information to the chosen site and measures the time taken for the site to respond. The -t switch will continually send packets until the command is cancelled (with Ctrl+C). If you do this whilst trying to access the site with a browser, it is much more likely to slow down your access to the site than anything else because you are keeping the site unnecessarily busy responding to your pings and because your Internet connection is also occupied in sending pings and receiving responses.
Using ping -t on a site from many PCs at once is one (theoretical) way of making a denial of service attack. With a large site (with many servers) like Facebook, it would probably take several thousand computers for this to have any effect and, in any case, a site like Facebook will have built in protection against such simplistic attacks.
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@owlwings (43914)
• Cambridge, England
22 Sep 11
Try it. You will either get a message "Unrecognised parameter", it will ignore all the other 't's or you may just get the same as if you typed 'ping ?'
@sajujohn (1005)
• India
17 Nov 12
The ping command will only check whether there is any connection between you PC and the server (which provides the website in your case). This is normally done by sending packets and checking whether all packets are received or not. And ping -t will check the same thing but will continuously keep on sending the packets until you cancel it. In short there is no connection between ping command and speed of Internet.
@tinker_bel (297)
• Philippines
22 Sep 11
no it won't....because pinging is just checking the speed of your internet connection. its like a measurement on how many packets are sent and if you received all those sent.
if you want a faster internet speed you might want to upgrade your speed plan, check for viruses, check the programs on your computer especially the start up program.
hope i was able to help you
happy mylotting :)
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
22 Sep 11
like tinker_bel said... ping only check for connection, not speeding up the connection.
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