Google ping'd fine.
at the command line pinging
www.google.com I got avg 45ms. The second time I did google.com and piped the output as you suggested (still from the command line) and got:
Pinging google.com [64.233.167.99] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 64.233.167.99: bytes=32 time=105ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.233.167.99: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.233.167.99: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.233.167.99: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=242
Ping statistics for 64.233.167.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 103ms, Maximum = 105ms, Average = 104ms