Troubleshoot your Home Network

These are some of the command line tools that you can use to troubleshoot your network connection not only in your home but also in your work place.

• PING <IP address> - This command shows whether you can contact another computer or network device with the specific IP address you enter. If you tried to ping a specific IP, let’s say from other country and you can notice some dropped responses, you can conclude whether the problem is within local network.
• IPCONFIG /ALL - It shows all your PC IP settings. You can use the command “ipconfig /renew” to get a new IP address if you are using DHCP.
• NETSTAT - This command will show you all active TCP/IP ports on your system.

With these few command line tools, you can make sure that you can troubleshoot basic networking problem that you may encounter.