I’ve found myself a new job supporting the hospitality industry with Internet connectivity support. My boss, an intelegent and hightech kind of guy, keeps bugging me whenever he catches me suggesting that a guest enter “ping” into a CMD screen to test an Internet connection. I only use it when all other methods of connection have failed, but all the settings have already been checked OR when I’m already in the DOS screen having used “ipconfig” to get an ip address which he insists I do. While taking MCSE courses in 2003 I found myself one of the most succesful trouble shooters and I relied on “ping” as my basic tool of “connect”. Anybody got a logical argument NOT to throw this tool out of the tool bag?
