A few notes about the server status

[Zelot]

Since, as you might or might not know, pong is an integral part of the net command ping, its either your ping or your pong that doesn't work.
A little history is needed : Ping was invented by the chinese IT student Ieyyei Ching Masie Ging (or ICMP as his friends called him), while he studied at CalTech, who decided to call the command and its integrated response program for ping and pong, in honour of his countrys achievements in that sport. This was right after the famous U.S. champion in the PingPong sport, mr. F. Gump, had retired and gone into the shrimpfishing business. But thats a side note.

But since pong is an integral part of the ping, then if your pong doesn't correspond to your ping, the endresult of executing a ping, will be much larger. So the only logical conclusion is that it seems like your Windows installation has become corrupt, and is not finding the hidden pong counterpart of the ping command. You need to reinstall your computers operating system.

Or it could be because the server has moved. It is one of those two reasons for sure.

A & L Guy

So much win, I wanted it posted again.

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