“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 ...

Traceroute shows the path your internet traffic takes to reach a website, highlighting delays at each stop. To use the command on a Windows computer, type "tracert howtogeek.com" in Command Prompt, or ...

In a simple SoHO network, if you're connected to a wireless AP which is getting its IP address from main router via DHCP, should it's IP address (the WAP) show in one of the "hops"? Frennzy is right.

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 ...

There are days when your connection breaks, not because the internet is down, but because your computer is confused. Wrong IP, no IP, stuck on an old network, or just refusing to pick up a new one.

For example:<BR><BR>Tracing route to http://www.comcast.com [164.109.28.3]<BR>over a maximum of 30 hops:<BR><BR> 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.102.1<BR> 2 * * * Request ...

Wireless networks have now mostly replaced wired LAN and you will find an abundance of wireless networks everywhere. Windows 11/10 offers various ways to manage your wireless networks using the ...