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

Utilizing the ping command in the command prompt window on your computer system might appear like something only computer science instructors and students must do, however the reality is that any instructor or trainee can benefit from knowing how to do it. Running a traceroute might seem like something only a computer science teacher or trainee should know how to do, but its in fact something that anyone can benefit from knowing how to do..
A traceroute reveals you the hops or connection points in between your computer and the location (typically a site). Run a few traceroutes with your trainees 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 reveal a simple technique to check if a site is down or if there is an issue on your end..

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