A Reason to Have Students Conduct Traceroutes Even if You’re Not a Computer Science Teacher

Using the ping command in the command timely window on your computer may appear like something just computer science teachers and students need to do, however the truth is that any teacher or student can benefit from understanding how to do it. Running a traceroute might seem like something only a computer system science teacher or trainee must understand how to do, but its actually something that anyone can benefit from knowing how to do..
A traceroute shows you the hops or connection points in between your computer system and the destination (typically a site). This is an interesting way for students to see where worldwide traffic is going to and coming from. Run a couple of traceroutes with your trainees and see if theyre amazed by what they see. Watch this brief video in which I demonstrate how to perform a traceroute..

Back in November I.
released a video about utilizing the ping command on a Windows computer system. The reason for that was to show a simple approach to check if a site is down or if there is a problem on your end..

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