Administrators can use ping as a troubleshooting method to test network connectivity. Businesses sometimes use tools such as Remote Desktop to perform computer maintenance or respond to trouble ...

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

Most businesses connect together multiple workstations to a single network using a switch or a router with an integrated switch; the router then assigns an IP address to each connected device. The IP ...

Network tools are essential for solving issues with a computer network that is not performing as it should. There are quite a few things can do to aid in returning a network to its rightful state, and ...

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 ...

In previous articles we’ve built some useful servers. But this time let’s take a look at one of the most powerful network troubleshooting tools ever written: the mighty “ping” command. You may have ...