Ping Test can be used to check the network connections and the network quality such as transfer delay, packet loss etc.

PING principle:

PING works in this procedure: The system sends a PING request to the destination. If the connection to the destination network is good, the host computer of the destination responses to the source host computer upon receiving the PING request.

If the network is found faulty through PING, you can use TRACERT to locate the fault.
The output of PING is the PING response from the destination. If no response is received within the limit, the output is "Request time out". Otherwise it outputs the message size in bytes, message number, TTL, and response time. The final statistics include the number of sent messages, number of received messages, percentage of the non-response messages, and the minimum, maximum and average response time.

If the result is Request time out, it means transmission is disconnected.

?If Request time out exist with probabilities, it means packets loss exist.

?If the value of time is big, it means transfer delay is high.

?If the difference between the value of time is large, it means vibration exist.

 

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