Can I Ping a Static IP address.?

Answer 1

You can ping a static or dynamic IP address. The only difference is that a static IP has been issued to a subscriber semi-permanently. A dynamic IP has something called a 'lease time', and is only valid until the lease runs out. This lease time can be minutes, hours, days, etc. When the lease runs out, the machine that was using it needs to request a new IP address. Many times the last IP address will be leased out again, unless another machine made a request and got it first. To ping any IP address with Windows, Click the Start Menu. Click Run. Type 'cmd' in the box and press enter. When you see the black prompt screen, type 'ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address you want to ping. If you have a router, you can test connection to it by pinging 192.168.1.1 in most cases, unless you have changed the router's IP address. After the ping command is finished, it will report how long the packets took to get there, how many were lost, etc. If you have a 100 percent loss rate, the ping failed, most likely due to no connection.