{"id":3063,"date":"2026-05-16T17:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:15:16","slug":"6-windows-networking-commands-every-single-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=3063","title":{"rendered":"6 Windows networking commands every single day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the things I use the terminal for on Windows, in both PowerShell and WSL, is for running basic network diagnostics. Here are the commands I use most frequently.<\/p>\n

ping<\/h2>\n

Is that site up or down?<\/h3>\n

This is a basic networking command. This was the first one that a community college networking class instructor demonstrated in the Command Prompt. This was in the days before PowerShell even existed.<\/p>\n

ping is a sends packets to a remote system and waits for it to echo them back. This is useful for determining if a site is down or your network connection has failed.<\/p>\n

For example, to ping google:<\/p>\n

ping google.com<\/code><\/pre>\n
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You can also ping IP addresses:<\/p>\n
ping 192.168.0.1<\/code><\/pre>\n
This will send four packets to google. If your connection and the remote site is working, you\u2019ll get some responses.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll also see some other information. You\u2019ll see the round-trip times, the size of the packets in bytes, and the TTL, or \u201cTime To Live.\u201d This number defines the maximum number of hops that a packet can go through before it\u2019s declared \u201cdead.\u201d<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll also get some statistics, such as the minimum, maximum, or average ping times. The latter will probably annoy statisticians, but the \u201caverage\u201d refers to the mean, as it does among normal people.<\/p>\n
You can change the number of replies with the -n option.<\/p>\n
A \u201cRequest timed out\u201d message does not necessarily mean a host is unresponsive or your network is down. A lot of hosts are set to ignore ping messages for security, on the theory that if you can\u2019t ping a machine, you can\u2019t break into it.<\/p>\n