The UNIX ping command lets you test network servers and latency. Here’s how to use it in the macOS Terminal app.
The UNIX ping command is a tiny UNIX network tool that allows you to test your network, that of your ISP or organization, remote servers, and network latency.
ping is one of the oldest and simplest UNIX commands and is available in virtually all UNIX distributions, including macOS.
ping was written by the late Mike Muuss in 1983 at the US Army Defense Ballistics Lab. Sadly, Muuss died young in 2000 at the age of 42, in a car accident on Interstate 95 in Maryland.
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