Using the ping command in the command timely window on your computer might appear like something only computer technology teachers and students should do, but the reality is that any instructor or trainee can gain from understanding how to do it. Similarly, running a traceroute may look like something only a computer technology teacher or student must understand how to do, but its in fact something that anybody can take advantage of knowing how to do..
A traceroute shows you the hops or connection points between your computer system and the destination (typically a website). Run a few traceroutes with your students and see if theyre amazed by what they see.

Back in November I.
published a video about using the ping command on a Windows computer. The reason for that was to show a simple technique to examine if a website is down or if there is a problem on your end..