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WINDOWS RESOURCE #5
WINDOWS NETWORKING COMMANDS
Apart from the most common used networking commands, one of the files, HOSTS, on your Windows system can help you speed up
your internet connection by creating a memory reference for connections on the internet, mostly for dial-up users.
You can find this file using Start - Search - For Files or Folders and it should produce the file in
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
After you see HOSTS, Then double click and it a window will
open asking you what program to use, scroll downwards and select Notepad.
You should see something similar to the next few lines.
How do you find the IP numbers?
Simple, just click Start Programs Accessories Command Prompt. That will open something similar to the old
DOS screen in a window where you will type ping and the name of the service that you wish to find the ip number for.
e.g. ping yahoo.com Notice that I did not include the "www.".
This should produce a 9 digit number separated by periods every 3 digits, that's the ip.
You can add your ISP's, your email provider if different such as yahoo or hotmail, etc. ip address on a blank line like the ones
that I have but without the # sign because this is used to comment the line so that it is not used by the system.
The spacing in between the ip address and the net address is inserted by pressing the tab key on your keyboard.
Editing your hosts file and adding references, e.g.
| # For example: | | | |
| # | 102.54.94.97 | rhino.acme.com | # source server |
| # | 38.25.63.10 | x.acme.com | # x client host |
| # | 216.109.112.135 | yahoo.com | # news and email |
| # | 195.170.0.2 | otenet.gr | # a Greek ISP |
| # | | | |
You can speed up your connections by providing your system with your isp (internet provider) because that
will help your system find a quicker response to send and retrieve information.
Additionally, if you happen to view a particular site often, placing their ip into your host file will help
increase the speed to accessing their content.
One more thing that you can do to speed up your Internet connection, especially if you have only one system and it is only being
used by one user at a time at home is to uninstall the QoS Packet Scheduler that is installed by Windows by default.
This is a service that is intended to even out the network usage between users in a network sharing scenario.
If you have multiple computers sharing either dial-up or routing data through one of the systems using an internal dsl or broadband
connection then you will probably want to continue to use QoS.
When using multiple systems through an external router, depending on the router, you can control user activity either through QoS
or through the router. This can be especially helpful if someone in your family likes to download very large files like
video and dvd's, and will prevent them from taking all the bandwidth of your connection.
You can check to see if QoS is implemented on your Windows system by clicking once on My Network Places, then right click
and select properties. Then click once on Lan or High Speed Internet, this also applies to dial-up users, then
another right click and select properties. If QoS is installed then it will be in the list that is shown.
Click cancel to continue without making any changes to your system.
To install QoS if it is not there and you wish to use it, with the properties window open click on install,
then click Service, then add, then click on QoS Packet Scheduler and install.
Please see the following link for more windows networking commands:
Windows and Linux Network Commands
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