5 Useful Network Related Command In Windows !

When we talk about windows we talk about the great interface it provides to its users where the users don't really have to worry about writing any command for getting its job done just have to click here and there and their respective job will be done.Although there are some things that can be performed only from the command-line, even on windows some of these things don't have their alternatives in form of graphical interface and while others are just faster in comparison to their graphical equivalents.

It is quite difficult to cover all the useful commands in a single article, so here I will be focussing on those commands that can prove helpful even if you are not a command-line user.In this article, I will be listing some network related commands that can really help an individual if they want to know about any network related things. So Let us start.

• ipconfig- Find Your Ip Address quickly.

    It is possible to find your IP address from control panel also, but it takes a number of clicks to do so.The ipconfig command is a faster way of determining your IP address and other useful information such as default gateway address and address of your router's web interface.

If you are connected to a Wireless network then your information will be listed under Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection as you can see in above figure but if you are connected to a wired Network then your information will be listed under Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection.

• ping,tracert- To Troubleshoot network related issues.

If there is some problem in connecting to a website or some other network connectivity issue, then windows, as well as other operating systems, provides some standard tools that can be used to identify the problems and the reason behind them.

First, there’s the ping command. Type ping google.com and Windows will send packets to Google.com. Google will respond and let you know it’s received them. You’ll be able to see if any packets didn’t make it to Google.com — perhaps you’re experiencing packet loss — and how long it took you to hear back — perhaps the network is busy or some kind of interference is there and packets are taking a while to reach their destinations.

Another command is there that provides the capability of tracing the route of the packet from its source to destination that is tracert.For example, run tracert google.com and you’ll see the path your packet takes to reach Google. If you’re having issues connecting to a website, tracert can show you where the problem is occurring.

• netstat-Statistics related Network.

The netstat command proves its usability by display all sorts of statistics related to a network when it is used with its various options.One of its most interesting options is netstat -an, which will display a list of all the network connections that area active on your computer along with the port they are using and their foreign IP address as well.

• nslookup- querying the DNS record.

nslookup is another network related command available for many computers operating systems for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) to obtain domain name or IP address mapping or for any other specific DNS record.

I Believe from now on if you guys feel any query related network you will use these tools available, and I hope this article  has given you some idea of the many powerful tools that are available over there in Windows and Linux isn’t the only operating system where users can benefit from learning some commands.