Moving from Windows to Linux? Here are the networking commands to use instead—plus a WSL bonus.

If your Android device has problems connecting to the Internet, you can see if other computers can connect over the Internet to your device. You can use the Windows command line ping tool to do this. ...

Your Linux distro comes pre-packaged with a wealth of powerful networking tools, including some that can diagnose common problems or help you monitor suspicious connections. But as with all things ...

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 ...

It's often useful to gain a quick measure of a network's "real-world" performance. Pinging is a technique in which you send a predetermined amount of data to a specific IP address on your own network ...

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 ...

There are certain Linux commands I consider essential. They range from networking, troubleshooting, and file viewing. They're also easy enough for new users to learn. Even though I've been using Linux ...

Wireless networks have now mostly replaced wired LAN and you will find an abundance of wireless networks everywhere. Windows 11/10 offers various ways to manage your wireless networks using the ...

Here in the Oregon HQ for macosxhints.com, we’ve got a few devices on our local network. There are the Macs, of course, and a networked Brother laser printer, the AirPort Base Station, and our (rarely ...

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 ...