Ping all addresses in network, windows

Question

Is it possible in windows cmd line to check all of the network addresses (with ping or similar) to see which ones are taken/ have active devices:

ie. something that does

Answer 1

Best Utility in terms of speed is Nmap.

write @ cmd prompt:

Nmap -sn -oG ip.txt 192.168.1.1-255

this will just ping all the ip addresses in the range given and store it in simple text file

It takes just 2 secs to scan 255 hosts using Nmap.