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 ...

The Command Prompt can't function as an Internet browser, and you can't really open a website from the command line without launching a browser, but it has some useful tools. One such tool is the Ping ...

To use the ping command, simply open a command prompt and type ping [hostname] or ping [ip address] and then press enter. For example, to check if you can connect to www.google.com, you would type ...

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

As a Windows user, you have likely encountered and used Command Prompt before, perhaps not fully understanding its potential. As an effective command-line interface providing access to system files ...