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Various ping destinations, and internet equipment between you and the destination, will drop pings for a number of reasons. The likeliness of this increases with lower Timeout and Delay values...
Generally, a good rule of thumb for pings across the internet is to go no lower than 1000 ms Delay, and 500 ms Timeout...
When troubleshooting connectivity to the internet, it is recommended to run tests on the following, if available: yourself (localhost), your network switch, your router/firewall's LAN IP, your router/firewall's WAN IP, your modem's WAN IP, and at least three reliable destinations on the internet. Common targets for that include Google DNS, CloudFlare DNS, and your ISP's DNS.