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By Bradley Mitchell, About.com Guide to Wireless / Networking since 1999

Reasons Why Pings Fail - Discuss

Thursday October 2, 2008
When attempting to ping one of the computers on your home network, you may encounter a failure. The failure message depends on the type of ping utility you use but can be General failure and Request timed out, for example. What causes ping to fail? This recent discussion on our message board covers the typical issues involved.
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