Being able to troubleshoot a home network is an important skill that everyone should learn about. To get started, you should get familiar with several Windows commands that let you diagnose common ...

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 ...

It is sometimes useful to know the network commands to analyze or configure your TCP/IP networks. Here is the list of commands that can be used in the command prompt. This command is also useful to ...

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If you start seeing packet loss, then that is a good indicator of a connection problem. Finally, if you use the ping command, and it shows 'Destination host unreachable' for each attempt, but other ...

Make sure that your changes are saved, and exit the window. You should now be able to ping other PCs on your network. Note: This method should work for Windows 11 ...

Modern network connectivity is light years ahead of what it once was. Even though it's much more reliable than it was in the 1990s, issues still come up -- which is why I'm glad that Linux includes a ...

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 ...

If after upgrading Windows 11/10 you find that Network Discovery is not working, and Workgroup computers or Network places are missing or not showing up, this post will show you how to resolve the ...