How to test your internet with Windows Command Prompt and Ping

Sometimes your internet seems to be acting up, here's a way you can test your internet connection using Windows Command Prompt to run a "Ping". This is an easy way a user can test their internet connection without installing additional software.

To open Command Prompt, all you need to do is open up the Run Window (press Win+R on your keyboard). From there, just type cmd and click OK.

At this point, you have your Command Prompt open and you're a couple clicks away from testing your internet connection.

To run a ping, simply type the instruction as follows without the quotes:

"ping google.com".

After you type the instruction, hit "Enter" on your keyboard to initiate the command.

From here you can see what info the PC has retrieved from the ping. The PC sends a signal to google.com and the signal bounces back to the PC to show you how far away your PC is to the google.com server.

4 pings were sent out and 4 were received back at 3 milliseconds each. In this case, the internet was working just fine. In some other cases, if there are any "Lost" pings, that means the ping was either not received back from google.com.