The ping command is used to test the availability of a remote or destination machine on a network. In this tutorial, I'll show you it's various uses on Windows operating systems. All the commands can be run on a command prompt or PowerShell. I have tested the tutorial on Windows 11, however, it works on ... Read more
You may know how to change the IP address via the GUI. It's pretty simple. Just go to Control Panel > Network and Internet, select the IPv4 properties and change the IP address. The whole process takes about a minute. But what if you have to do this on multiple systems and repeat all these ... Read more
Many times, you'll have trouble remembering your router's default Wi-Fi network name and password, which comes with it when you buy it. It's also possible that the password you established earlier, or the one that's your default password, has been leaked, allowing others to access your internet. Alternatively, you find it quite easy for anyone ... Read more
In this short article, I explain how to disable IPv6 in the Debian 10 network stack. Why would one want to do this? Most likely if you have connection problems and cannot reach servers on the Internet from your Debian system using IPv6, while it works using IPv4. Disabling IPv6 should always be the last ... Read more
MAC address stands for Media Access Control address and is a series of numbers used to uniquely identify a device within a network. The MAC address is used when communicating over the network at the data link layer. By default, when you purchase a device, it has a MAC address assigned to it by the ... Read more
OneDrive allows you to sync files to your local computer so that you can access them even when there is no internet connection. But the downside of this method is that it uses your hard drive space which you will definitely not prefer, because then what’s the purpose of using cloud storage. If you want ... Read more
For proper installation and connection of a hardware device with an operating system, you need to install drivers for it. Without correct drivers, your system will not communicate, send, and receive data properly to a hardware device. Similarly, to connect with a wireless device, you need Wi-Fi drivers. Although Windows 10 comes with installed drivers ... Read more
IP address or Internet Protocol Address is some numerical digits that are used to uniquely identify a device’s name and its location. IP addresses are assigned to each and every device that is connected to the network whether it is a personal computer or a printer or a scanner etc. Many times you need to ... Read more
Whenever you connect your PC to a new Wi-Fi network, you enter the relevant credentials like a password. Once the connection has been established, Windows 10 saves that network profile along with its credentials for you. Therefore you don’t have to enter the same details again and again for the same Wi-Fi network. This lets ... Read more
The majority of graphical environments let you choose to remember the passwords you enter somewhere to ease access to something but they usually don't tell you how to delete them again. Most Linux desktop distributions have a tool installed where all your saved passwords for network drives are stored in that is called Passwords and ... Read more