Feel smarter than your router in 60 seconds.

If you've used networking commands on Windows, such as ping and tracert, you might wonder if you can use them on Linux, whether on its own or part of WSL. Fortunately, you can. I remember sitting in a ...

There are three commands you can use to find out what the IP address of a website is, and they’re all easy to use. Let’s see what you’re required to do: Find the IP address using the ping command Find ...

Ping The ping command allows you to check if you can connect to a hostname or an IP address and provide a basic measurement of the latency or lag between your connection and the remote device. To use ...

Everyone should be able to use basic Windows 10 network commands entered from the command prompt to troubleshoot network connection problems. Living and working in an always-connected world means the ...

There are quite a few tools that can help test your connectivity on the Linux command line. In this post, we’ll look at a series of commands that can help estimate your connection speed, test whether ...

I've been using Linux for what seems like forever. Over the years, I've noticed that I use the command line less and less, because the GUIs have just gotten so much better. Even still, there are ...

Generally, the way the ping command works amongst other network tools, is simply by sending special packets known as Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Requests to a target device, and then ...

Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...

Anyone know if there is a way to add a timestamp to a ping command?<BR><BR>I know stupid question, but I can't figure it out, and it would help me troubleshoot an issue I need to look into.<BR><BR>TiA ...