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Use ping to troubleshoot network connectivity

Use ping to troubleshoot network connectivity - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows 10: Networking (2018)

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Use ping to troubleshoot network connectivity

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- [Instructor] Finding the problem when network issues arise is sometimes easy like when an ethernet cable has become disconnected. Sometimes, it's more difficult to diagnose. Problems that occur when you can't reach a single host on the network often fall into this category. These kinds of problems can be quite frustrating, especially when networking troubleshooters and other attempts to resolve the problem haven't worked. One tool for resolving problems like this is the command line tool Ping. Ping tests the connection from one computer to another to see if they can connect, and if they can't, offers up information that might help you discover why. You can run the ping command from a command prompt. You can also run it from Powershell. If you aren't familiar with Powershell, it's a tool used mostly by IT professionals and enables them to perform all kinds of tasks using command-lets. Ping and other familiar tools can be used here too. Let's open it. Click inside the search box on…

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