There's a utility I used to use named ping. I found it useful for some kinds of troubleshooting.
I recently cranked up ping after not using it for years. All the sites I tried pinging did not respond. I tried pinging my dslrouter, and that did respond.
Have they disabled the ping responder at a lot of sites that used to carry it? Or is there some intermediary fielding my ping requests and not forwarding them?
Not sure whether you're pinging from the Command Prompt or a separate utility, but all of my pings respond just fine.
Some sites do disable ping (mostly to prevent DoS attacks), but a ping to your router should always get a response.
Are they just timing out?
Since the router won't respond to what I think is a typical ICMP Ping (not a UDP ping), are you sure a Firewall installed on your system is not blocking it?
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