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the server I need to check the latency of is denying PING requests, is there another way to check my latency to the server? Thanks in advance.
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Measure network performance with Traceroute As an alternative to ping, you can check network latency with traceroute. This approach to testing latency is also available on all operating systems.
If ICMP is blocked, you can't ping the host in the normal way, however, if it is running an exposed tcp service, you can use tcping. It sends a SYN, listens for SYN/ACK response as the ICMP Echo equivalent and measures the time required for the transaction.
If these ICMP messages are blocked, the destination system continuously requests undelivered packets and the source system continues to resend them infinitely but to no avail, since they are too large to pass through the complete path from the source to the destination.
Use a ping based on TCP.
If you have access to a Windows box, use http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/jj729731.aspx
Download the zip, unpack. From CMD prompt cd to unpacked folder, then run with -t flag like this:
psping.exe -t www.anywebsite.com:80
Please note: this assumes you have a web site running on remote host (port 80 in example above)
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Some people recommend hping which can use other protocols like TCP (for when ICMP is denied).
Note that I haven't tried it so I would be curious to know your experience if you do.
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