In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards discuss the PsPing command-line tool from Sysinternals - a more powerful replacement for the default "ping" command, which also adds additional capabilities such as bandwidth measurement. Additional Resources: PsPing ProcDump Debugging Tools for Windows (includes WinDbg) Timeline: [00:00] Introductions and overview.[02:12] Plain vanilla "ping" command and its limitations[05:15] PsPing allows you to ping a different port than the standard ICMP "ping" port[08:35] Andrew's story about using PsPing to troubleshoot a network problem at home[11:14] Demo: using PsPing to measure network bandwidth[17:58] Using the -h switch to get a histogram of the bandwidth over various attempts[18:15] Oh no! The program crashed![18:36] Installing ProcDump as the just-in-time debugger, to get a crash dump so we can debug it[20:20] Using WinDbg to analyze the crash[23:41] Questions? Email us at
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