Ping a website or another online server to test your computer's connection to that computer and measure the time it takes for data packets to travel there and back. By default, the ping command sends ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...

Some Windows users, who use an Ethernet port in multiple computers may receive an IP address conflict Network Error – Another computer on this network has the same ...

How to find a hostname via public IP address? In order to find the hostname of a computer with a public IP address, you have to pass the address to the Domain Name System (DNS) server. Here are the ...

This tip is excerpted from "Network troubleshooting and diagnostics," Chapter 4 of The Shortcut Guide to Network Management for the Mid-Market, written by Greg Shields and published by ...