The 'ping' command on most flavors of Unix has a nifty little feature that lets you select which port to ping on. It's handy when troubleshooting network applications. For example, if some wierd app.

Apple’s new social network for music fans, Ping, has had a rough start. People didn’t expect it to be a Facebook for music right away but they did expect more from Apple. After years of social media ...

Here in the Oregon HQ for macosxhints.com, we’ve got a few devices on our local network. There are the Macs, of course, and a networked Brother laser printer, the AirPort Base Station, and our (rarely ...

If you’re trying to lower ping & reduce latency for gaming – here’s exactly what we’d do to improve your internet connectivity. Ping is effectively your latency between your PC and a server. Latency ...

We have a customer that has several remote sites that connect to their main office. There is an application that runs that connects to the remote sites, and when a remote site is having connectivity ...