Pinging on Vista

[kiepie]

Hi all,

Trying to help a friend find out her ping, she is in Taiwan.She says she can't ping google, although she has internet.

It says; www.google.com is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Is pinging in Vista different?

 

[Syndyre]

No, but has she opened a command prompt first?

 

[kiepie]

She as oppend run and typed in cmd.

It now says

c:\users\user

 

[Syndyre]

I just opened a command prompt, typed in ping www.google.com and it worked perfectly so I'm not sure what her problem is. Running Vista Business.

 

[newb5000]

she must type

[B]ping[/B] www.google.com

and not just www.google.com

 

[.Froot.]

hehe. typing in "www.google.com" will attempt to locate a program called "www.google.com" or try to open a file in that directory. Which is why that error message states "...not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Format and go back to XP, that will fix it.

 

[general_koffi]

Format and go back to XP, that will fix it.

No, I'm afraid typing "www.google.com" at the DOS prompt will do exactly the same thing in XP.

 

[dotnerd]

Pretending that im not seeing this...

why bother pinging google if you have internet ?

 

[Syndyre]

I'm guessing to see what your actual ping is, latency etc.

 

[kiepie]

she must type

[B]ping[/B] www.google.com

and not just www.google.com

She typed in "ping www.google.com"

I'm guessing to see what your actual ping is, latency etc.

Yes that's correct, just wanted to see the latency. Though google would served best.

But she still tells me she gets the error, will try again tomorrow.

Thanks all.

 

[Syndyre]

She typed in "ping www.google.com"

Exactly what I typed, without the quotation marks obviously.

 

[Gunny]

Errr are china and taiwan not blocked from accessing google.com ? i seem to remember something along those lines.

 

[HavocXphere]

No, I had this problem some time back too.

The problem is, that the PC doesn't find the ping program because the path variables are messed up.

Tell her to first go to the system32 directory with the cd command (i.e. current dir must be c:\windows\system32). Then it will work.

 

[Syndyre]

Errr are china and taiwan not blocked from accessing google.com ? i seem to remember something along those lines.

Mainland China might be but Taiwan isn't behind China's firewall.

 

[kiepie]

Okay thanks guys, I logged on to her PC and finally a ping was possible.

Pinging www.google.com was terrible. The latency is between 1200-1400ms...