iCheckConnection Utility

Usage and Formatting Examples

To use iCheckConnection, open a DOS box, MS-DOS Prompt or Command Prompt window (click here for instructions on opening these windows). From the command line, type the following (where <address> is the URLs, DNS names and/or IP addresses you wish to check, separated by spaces):

iCheckConnection <address>

Here are some examples of usage and typical results (actual results will vary):

To get help on using iCheckConnection:

iCheckConnection help

PC Pitstop Connection Checker 1.2
Copyright (c) 2004 PC Pitstop LLC. All rights reserved.

Usage: iCheckConnection [<dns name> | <ip address>
  | <http://url> | <ftp://url>]+

Tests your connection to one or more Internet sites.
Pings the sites, traces routes if packets are lost, and checks
the bandwidth for ftp and http URLs.

More examples of usage and typical results:

iCheckConnection        (tests all PC Pitstop servers)
iCheckConnection internic.net   (pings Internic, traces route if needed)
iCheckConnection http://www.byte.com    (pings www.byte.com,
tests home page bandwidth)
iCheckConnection ftp://ftp.download.com/pub/win95/utilities/htpe6.exe
(pings ftp.download.com, tests download bandwidth)

iCheckConnection

PC Pitstop Connection Checker 1.2
Copyright (c) 2004 PC Pitstop LLC. All rights reserved.
DNS is working
Ping www.pcpitstop.com (64.29.201.21) 32 bytes  39 40 40 48 40
http://www.pcpitstop.com returned 16263 bytes in 0.14 seconds (909 Kb/s)

(Note: Microsoft's Web sites do not respond to pings, because Microsoft has been the victim of denial-of-service attacks in the past.)

iCheckConnection www.microsoft.com	

PC Pitstop Connection Checker 1.2
Copyright (c) 2004 PC Pitstop LLC. All rights reserved.
DNS is working
Ping www.microsoft.com (207.46.230.219) 32 bytes        * * * * *
Trace route to www.microsoft.com
1 (128.121.37.97) 32 bytes      3 3 3 3 3
2 (128.121.32.1) 32 bytes       71 66 67 66 67
3 (199.1.129.65) 32 bytes       60 60 61 60 60
4 (129.250.31.49) 32 bytes      61 60 61 62 62
5 (137.39.23.221) 32 bytes      60 60 61 61 60
6 (152.63.98.126) 32 bytes      60 61 62 63 61
7 (152.63.98.38) 32 bytes       64 62 62 73 64
8 (152.63.5.50) 32 bytes        126 126 125 126 126
9 (152.63.105.1) 32 bytes       128 126 126 126 127
10 (146.188.201.33) 32 bytes    126 131 131 134 126
11 (157.130.177.154) 32 bytes   127 127 133 130 130
12 (207.46.129.47) 32 bytes     126 127 130 128 128
13 (207.46.190.26) 32 bytes     128 128 128 129 131
14 (0.0.0.0) 32 bytes   * * * * *
Hop 14 doesn't respond, giving up
Previous hop was an unknown host