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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...