Method 1: Legacy ping command

# Legacy method that works without any fusses
$pingResult=ping google.com -n 1
return [bool]($pingResult -match '0% loss')

Method 2: Use WMI

# This ping command would limit the ttl to a certain value
# WMI must be healthy on the host system for this to work
$remoteHost='google.com'
$timeOut=200
[bool]$pingable=!(!(Get-WmiObject Win32_PingStatus -Filter "Address='$remoteHost' and Timeout=$timeout and ResolveAddressNames='true' and StatusCode=0"))
if($pingable){write-host "Ping $remotehost successful"}else{write-host "Ping $remoteHost failed"}

Method 3: Use PowerShell Native

# This works most of the time. On certain computers with corrupted WMI, this would freeze indefinitely
Test-connection google.com -Count 1 -Quiet
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