How to use command prompt to identify and solve problems in your Broadband internet connection on Windows
How to use command prompt to identify and solve problems in your Broadband internet connection The command prompt. A forgotten and often under-estimated software of the Windows ecosystem. As a regular reader would know by now, the command prompt has a long lists of uses that tend to get ignored by the uninitiated. One aspect of these uses that we’ll see today is to test and improve one’s internet connection. Using Ping First thing to test, is your internet connection. We do this, by using Ping. Ping is a Windows program that comes pre-installed with the OS. It is a text based program and therefore needs text based commands to execute. It’s the software used to test the latency on your connection. For those who don’t know, latency is the time taken to establish a connection between your computer and the web server hosting the website you requested. The first thing to do, is open the Start Menu and search for the command prompt. You can do this by typing “cmd” in t...