Usually a nightmare starts for the network administrators when a network resource goes offline and the network users incessantly complain about the disruption in the connection. The situation is not much different for the website owners who do not find out their offline websites until they check them three days later or when someone emails Read More …
So you are busy editing a document on a web site such as Office 365 cloud and suddenly some features stop work, leading you to try other things without realizing that your internet connection has been dropped. Instead of opening your router interface and checking whether it has really been disconnected, you can use a Read More …
As a web developer and blogger, so many times I have to check the ping replies and domain name information for the websites that I am working on. For network problems troubleshooting we also need some of these tools. Your operating system like Linux or Window comes with some of these tools (like ping and Read More …
If you ask people for a solution to share the screen of your Windows computer then they will talk about remote access software like LogMeIn, TeamViewer etc. These remote access programs are excellent but you do not need these heavy applications for just sharing your computer screen with others. You can use a small tool Read More …
Third party firewall or internet security software often displays a list of all the TCP/UDP connections being made by various programs in your PC. Using this dynamically updating connections list, you can see which of the applications are making connections to which of the online servers, their ports, the remote IP addresses and more. But Read More …
All network interfaces available in a Windows computer such as WiFi or Ethernet port have a fixed MAC address (media access control) associated with them. MAC address is a set of six hexadecimal numbers (such as 2A:A7:1F:B7:AA:F4) and is used to identify your computer over a network. If you access public WiFi networks such as Read More …
When you are having network problems, then the ping command comes really handy. All operating systems come with one or other variations of the ping command including Windows, Linux, MacOS and even some Android variations with BusyBox. In Windows, the ping command, like all the other commands, do not show colored results and therefore you Read More …
When you are using your PC and suddenly the internet does not seem to work, you have to open a number of command line windows, check Windows settings and open browser windows to see what is working and what is not. A small Windows gadget called Network Monitor II can save your time and make Read More …
Network Notepad is a free program for Windows that helps you create interactive network diagrams. It comes with a library of networking objects that you can use when creating the diagrams. It also offers even more downloadable library packages that contain many more objects for your diagrams. All the network objects in the diagram can Read More …
Colasoft Capsa is a free network analyzer tool for Windows. It works with both the Ethernet LAN and the wireless networks such as WiFi or Bluetooth. It can be used for packet analysis of all the supported networks by network admins to monitor the networks or to troubleshoot the problems. The application monitors the network Read More …