“Ping,” a command that was designed – and used for many years – to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame ...

If I do a tracert from TRACERT.com, I get the following outpuy<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> 1 fastethernet9-0-0.bdr2.syd.connect.com.au (192.189.54.55) 2.162 ...

I have found a host on our WAN that is dual homed. I am assuming that this host has routing enabled. There are three hops between me and this host. I would like to use this host as a router and query ...

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 ...

We recently wrote about the diminishing usability of “ping” and “tracert” due to the use of these commands as components of various types of network attacks. We also expressed our dismay that by ...

Tracert When you connect to a remote device, your requests travel through a series of different routers, called hops, before they make it to their ultimate destination. If you are finding that your ...

Diagnosing a slow internet involves a lot of guesswork. You might blame your router for slow evening internet, reconfigure your DNS settings to see if your ISP's DNS is causing the issue, or run the ...