Part of the U.S. Air Force’s computer network defense efforts involve 67th Network Warfare Wing airmen monitoring Internet activity from a center located at Lackland Air Force Base. The wing falls ...

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 ...

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While you can do almost everything you need in Windows by clicking around, it’s worth your time to learn a selection of Windows' many commands. You don’t need to be scared of text-based commands; many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this post, we will learn how to open the Command Prompt window at the Login screen or Boot on your Windows PC. Command Prompt (cmd.exe) is the default command line interpreter for Windows. It is ...

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