General Chat
 
Forums: » Register « |  User CP |  Games |  Calendar |  Members |  FAQs |  Sitemap |  Support | 
User Name:
Password:
Remember me
Go Back   Codewalkers Forums > General > General Chat
Reload this Page

Does pinging a site consumes bandwidth?

Discuss Does pinging a site consumes bandwidth? in the General Chat forum on Codewalkers.
Does pinging a site consumes bandwidth? A place to chit-chat.

Reply
Add This Thread To:
  Del.icio.us   Digg   Google   Spurl   Blink   Furl   Simpy   Y! MyWeb 
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »  
Thread Tools Search this Thread Rate Thread Display Modes
 
Unread Codewalkers Forums Sponsor:
Dell PowerEdge Servers
  #1  
Old April 21st, 2008, 05:16 AM
Oblax Oblax is offline
Registered User
Codewalkers Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 29 Oblax User rank is Just a Lowly Private (1 - 20 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 13 h 8 m
Reputation Power: 0
Does pinging a site consumes bandwidth?
Does pinging a website consumes bandwidth? for example if I ping mysite.com -t (continuous) does it consumes bandwidth to mysite.com?
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old April 21st, 2008, 06:45 AM
tkarkkainen's Avatar
tkarkkainen tkarkkainen is offline
Moderator
Click here for more information
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Finland
Posts: 2,310 tkarkkainen User rank is Lance Corporal (50 - 100 Reputation Level)tkarkkainen User rank is Lance Corporal (50 - 100 Reputation Level)tkarkkainen User rank is Lance Corporal (50 - 100 Reputation Level)  Folding Points: 7832 Folding Title: Novice Folder
Time spent in forums: 6 Days 4 h 58 m 15 sec
Reputation Power: 4
Pinging means sending an ICMP packet to the target system. The packet contains data, which means it will consume some of the bandwidth. The packet is very small, though. The ping program on my computer seems to send packages of 64 bytes by default.
__________________
Fight Internet censorship!

Code:
()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail 
/\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary attachments
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old April 21st, 2008, 08:09 AM
Oblax Oblax is offline
Registered User
Codewalkers Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 29 Oblax User rank is Just a Lowly Private (1 - 20 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 13 h 8 m
Reputation Power: 0
Thank you. I'm enlightened.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Viewing: Codewalkers Forums > General > General Chat > Does pinging a site consumes bandwidth?

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Thread Tools  Search this Thread 
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes  Rate This Thread 
Linear Mode Linear Mode
Rate This Thread:


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
View Your Warnings | New Posts | Latest News | Latest Threads | Shoutbox
Forum Jump

 Free IT White Papers!
 
Accelerating Trading Partner Performance
One in five. That's how many partner transactions have at least one error. That is an amazing statistic, particularly given the extraordinary leaps in innovation across the global supply chain during the past two decades. Download this white paper to learn more.
 
Competing on Analytics
This Tech Analysis is designed to help identify characteristics shared by analytics competitors, and includes information about 32 organizations that have made a commitment to quantitative, fact-based analysis.
 
Cost Effective Scaling with Virtualization and Coyote Point Systems
An overview of the industry trend toward virtualization, how server consolidation has increased the importance of application uptime and the steps being taken to integrate load balancing technology with virtualized servers.
 
Five Checkpoints to Implementing IP Telephony
Implementation planning for IP PBX software and IP telephony has become vital as businesses replace discontinued legacy PBX phone systems. This informative whitepaper outlines five "checkpoints" for any implementation plan that will help make IP communications a successful proposition.
 
Hosted Email Security: Staying Ahead of New Threats
In the last two years, email has become a fierce battleground between the nefarious forces of spam and malware, and the heroes of messaging protection. The spam volumes increased alarmingly every month, bringing clever new forms of phishing and virus propagation attacks.
 

Forums: » Register « |  User CP |  Games |  Calendar |  Members |  FAQs |  Sitemap |  Support | 
  
 





© 2003-2008 by Developer Shed. All rights reserved. DS Cluster 6 hosted by Hostway.