Ping

Tried the ping thing and I think I've had some success.
Pinged curtin.edu.au from the dos screen of my pc.
4 packets were sent with an average time of 256ms.
To get to the dos screen using windows XP I went in to start, all programs, accessories,command prompt.
See results below.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\peter>ping curtin.edu.au

Pinging curtin.edu.au [134.7.134.47] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 134.7.134.47: bytes=32 time=267ms TTL=240
Reply from 134.7.134.47: bytes=32 time=262ms TTL=240
Reply from 134.7.134.47: bytes=32 time=257ms TTL=240
Reply from 134.7.134.47: bytes=32 time=241ms TTL=240

Ping statistics for 134.7.134.47:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 241ms, Maximum = 267ms, Average = 256ms

C:\Documents and Settings\peter>


Then I tried from fifi.org.
This time 5 packets were sent with an average time of 232 ms.

Then from centralops 5 packets were sent with an average of 246ms.