| Bandwidth = Maximum Throughput / Transmitting Nodes |
| Other Online Network Utilities | |||
Display your Internet connection parameters! |
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| WhoIs's | TraceRoute's | Ping's | Finger's |
| An Internet directory service, similar to finger, used to look up names of people on a remote server. Use whois through third-party utilites on Windows and Macintosh machines, and the command line interface in Unix. Most commonly, use whois to find domain ownerships and contact info. | A utility that allows you to see how information travels on the Net. Traceroute traces the path a packet takes as it is sent from your computer to a destination computer. Traceroute program can help evaluate which link in the Internet chain is responsible for the lag time. | Ping is a program that "bounces" a request off of another computer over a network to see if the remote computer is still responding. If the ping comes back, the remote computer is still alive. | Finger is a program that you point at the username of someone on a networked system. Finger uncovers that person's full name, most recent log-in time, and other information. It's also used as a verb, meaning to apply the program to a username. |