how to "ping" a router

[real_guitar_dude]

I'm trying to figure out the quality of my connection between my pc and router via the PING feature. How exactly do I do this?

 

[tlarkin]

ping does not measure "quality" it simply sends a packet and waits for a packet to send back for verification that you can send/receive packets from one place to another.

trace route will trace your route from your client machine to your destination.

netstat displays statistics of the network

nslookup is reverse dns look up

if you want to measure quality you would need like a bandwidth meter.