Is the Internet down? Troubleshooting network issues

ronjor · Nov 23, 2012

By Patrick Lambert

If you work with people who aren’t tech-savvy, this is probably a sentence you have heard before. When they sit down to their computer, try to do some work, and then something unexpected happens, someone invariably exclaims, “The Internet is down!” That user most likely tried to pull up a website or read their emails, and received a connection error in their browser, but the actual problem can be in many different places. It could be the website that’s down, or the local computer that has some type of connectivity problem. Or, in some cases, it could be somewhere in between, and that’s where things become much harder to diagnose. Let’s look at a couple of tools and services that can be used for just that purpose.
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