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In windows, how to change the order of networks priority to use when multiples are availables?
I have an android smartphone with USB tethering connection sharing... it's plugged to my windows PC
I have an ethernet RJ45 wire.... also plugged to my windows PC...
It uses automatically the ethernet ...
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Is there any way to block connections by process and hostname system-wide in Windows?
In macOS, a firewall app like Little Snitch can block outgoing connections by both process and hostname (as opposed to just IP address), allowing fine-grained control over which network connections ...
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How to confirm host IP address in a browser?
I am trying to troubleshoot certain CDN problem, testing what kind of download speeds I get on different servers. Let's say it is host.example.com which will return me some IP address, not sure which ...
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What configuration or concept am I not understanding with web servers and domains
Please bear with me, this might be a little confusing because I'm having a hard time explaining.
I have an IIS web server at home. I registered a domain with DuckDNS to point to that web server.
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Why is my Windows laptop not querying local DNS server?
I have a local PowerDNS server on a Linux box. I can access it fine on my Windows laptop under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). dig @main probitas returns the expected address. ping probitas and ...
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Network frequently dropping while playing online games on just one device - possible hardware issue?
Basically what the title says. It started happening about a week ago. It happens at random moments so it is hard to consistently replicate. It could happen even 10 minutes or it could not happen for 4-...
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Windows 11 - Network traffic cuts out (Both wired and Wifi)
I have a strange problem. The other day, my work laptop started acting up.
I as logged in to an rdp and the connection became very unstable.
As this happens as times, I didn't think much about it.
But ...
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Windows 11 (ASUS B550M WiFi) - is my Realtek NIC causing these problems?
So my PC has been experiencing intermittent disconnects from the internet (whether on WiFi, Ethernet or even tethering on 5G). Other devices have some issues, but none as frequent as my PC.
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Unable to Connect to Remote Desktop on Local Network - Diagnosing with CMD/PowerShell
I've recently encountered an issue with Remote Desktop Connection that stumps me. I have two Windows computers on the same Wi-Fi network. Until recently, I could connect without problems, but now I'm ...
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How do I get windows to ignore security level and connect to the internet
Sometimes when I try to connect to hotel wifi, Windows tells me that it is at a lower security level that is due to be phased out. It then cleverly offers me help on what to do but when I click on ...
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User's PC have 2 different IP in the same DHCP network
I currently have an issue with a user on Active Directory where their PC have 2 different IP address but in the same DHCP network (ex: IP 1: 192.168.1.10, IP 2: 192.168.1.11), gateway: 192.168.1.1). ...
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How to identify a network? [closed]
I am trying to make a local network with two computers (Linux and Windows) via Ethernet, without a router, the connection works fine, but I don't like the name of the network (if it has one) because ...
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Print to local USB printer when using VNC over a VPN
We have client computer C. There is a NAS running OpenVPN at a remote location. Network access has been enabled on the NAS/OpenVPN to allow clients to communicate with the rest of the network. A ...
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Define route for some protocols
I'm on windows 10.
My default gateway is blocking ICMP, but if I change the route to some specific one (which pass through one VPN), ping is working. I can change ping to specific IP with route add ...
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Firewall drops DHCP with full allowed or disabled Firewall in Fresh unchanged Windows 11 23H2 Installation
I installed a fresh Win 11 23H2 (with lot problems caused to broken Installer-PE, but not the point)
The Network Connection dont work. Its a Reaktek 2,5GbE 8125 Adapter.
I tried:
diffent settings like ...
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Use the Windows PC as a middleware to access the restricted site
Assume my Windows PC has the ability to access the restricted.com site via a network adapter that only supports Windows. I want my other Linux PC to be able to access that site as well, but because ...
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eCatcher error: VPN tunnel error: TAP-Windows adapter 'Talk2m-eCatcher' not found
I've just started an eCatcher session.
When trying to connect to one of the Ewons, I get the following error message:
VPN tunnel error: TAP-Windows adapter 'Talk2m-eCatcher' not found
Retrying ...
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How to slow down Ethernet Card in Windows
Is there some way to slow down the Ethernet card in Windows? I have a 1GB/s card and I want to slow it down to a given speed, for example to 5MB/s.
I know I can easily slow down the card to 100MB/s or ...
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add network route with higher priority than wifi on windows
I'm trying to configure the following:
General access to internet - via WiFi
Access to specific internet IPs - via USB Tethering on mobile phone
I run command ...
route add 123.123.123.0 mask 255....
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Set wsl2 to use host nameserver
I'm using wsl2 on Windows 11, and I recently encountered a problem where when I change networks, the wsl2 dns (nameserver at resolve.conf) address doesn't update, to match, and there for cannot lookup ...
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Is it possible to temporarily block internet connection to a specific program? preferably with a keyboard hotkey
I was wondering if there is any third-party application that would make it possible for me to temporarily sever internet connection to a specified application? My hope is to use a key bind for this ...
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How to view of the physical disk of a network share is an HDD or SSD?
I use PowerShell "Get-PhysicalDisk | Format-Table -AutoSize" on cmd to check if the physical disk of my local computer is a SSD or HDD. Is this possible to check this for mounted network ...
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WiFi not working after adding a loopback address to WiFi interface in Windows
I think I did something that I was not supposed to do.
While trying to learn something, I added a new loopback address to my WiFi interface in Windows without knowing what I'm doing. I typed the ...
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PTK and GTK where are they stored?
So I know for unicast traffic PTK is used to encrypt and obtain ciphertext; and for multicast traffic GTK is used to encrypt and obtain ciphertext. I know PTK is produced at a 4 way handshake, and ...
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How are (NetBIOS?) names being resolved on my network?
Firstly, i have little understanding of Windows Network Discovery, and how NetBIOS operates. I don't like it, and i try to ignore it. I have a server on my LAN, which (among other things) is acting as ...
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How do I send data between 2 windows PCs?
I'm working on a project where 2 databases are identical in 2 locations away from each other
I have some logic set up to sync them on an interval but now I'm stuck on the communication part
A little ...
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NTP sync fails but NTP servers are reachable on Windows 10
I can't get my clock to sync in Windows 10.
When asking for a sync in either the control panel, or by doing w32tm /resync my computer sends some NTPv3 packets to pool.ntp.org (I manually set that ...
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I would like to connect two discrete NIC in one computer
I have a system with two discrete NIC, therby, I have two discrete network on my window client. How are clients on network 1 able to see the clients that sitting on network 2? I hope I have been able ...
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Is there an option in Windows 10/11 to prefer similar IPv6 source address for outbound connections?
I have a multihoming setup with 2 IPv6 GUAs on the same interface, each from a different ISP. My edge router does source-based policy routing, so is there a way to tell Windows to use the same ISP (...
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How can I idenfity a program making network requests to unknown domain
I'm observing network traffic directed towards a suspicious domain . While I can't see the data being transmitted or identify the originating program, I've temporarily blocked it using the hosts file. ...
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HyperV internal network detected as Unidentified network and keeps resetting to public after reboot
I use a HyperV internal network in order to allow file sharing access via SMB between my guest and host. This was working fine for several years but I recently upgraded to windows 11 (clean install).
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In Windows 10 (22H2), network drives are not reconnecting after re-connecting to the VPN. Error: The local device name is already in use
A user is connecting to a work network using a FortiClient VPN client. When the VPN connection drops, the user re-connects to the VPN, but they are unable to re-connect to the network drives. If ...
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Why is windows 11 sending conventional DNS requests after enabling DNS-over-Https?
I enabled DOH on my Wi-Fi. It works. But using Wireshark, I still see explicit DNS requests and see the DNS server refusing the requests.
Why is this happening, and what's the meaning of DOH to ...
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network errors in windows
i am desperately trying to fix this for weeks, when doing anything that requires internet with anaconda on windows it gives this error:
Retrieving notices: ...working... Retrying (Retry(total=2, ...
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Bluetooth connectivity issues when connected to Wi-Fi, issues disappear when Wi-Fi is turned off or 5 Ghz Band is disabled
I have a Mini PC equipped with a soldered Realtek 8852BE network interface card (NIC), which supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2. However, I'm encountering a peculiar issue where enabling the Wi-Fi ...
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Windows: How do I measure network traffic per process?
I am developing a benchmarking tool on Windows that measures startup performance of a process. I have been recording total network traffic using Get-AdapterStatistics | ConvertTo-JSON powershell ...
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Move files to network share, local space is not freed up
I have seen this many times, over multiple days and many reboots:
I have 0.5GB free locally
I move a 2GB folder from local to network share
It is gone locally
Local drive still shows 0.5GB free
To ...
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How to automatically install removed network printers?
By default Windows installs network printers automatically with an IPP or another type of basic print driver.
I discovered that when you delete such an automatically installed printer it won't be ...
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Windows 10 server ssh tunnel to Ubuntu doesn't work
source: Windows 10 Server (local port 8081)
destination: Ubuntu
ssh tunnel: Putty
Windows10 server------->ssh tunnel--------->Ubuntu
I have the ssh tunnel up between the source and destination
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How do I direct connect via Ethernet two Windows machines and keep their connection to the internet via WiFi?
I have two Windows 10 laptops connected to the same router over WiFi. They can access the internet and can see each other in Explorer, file sharing works fine. I can ping one machine from the other ...
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RDP hangs when connecting to a machine in another subnet
I'm having problems connecting trough RDP to a machine in another subnet
Both networks are connected trough a series of FortiGate routers
The symptoms are that when I click connect the window where I ...
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Split Tunneling on an application level - Windows 10/11
OS = Windows 11
I need to make use of a VPN to access a license server for software I want to run on my machine. The VPN itself is slow (internet wise) and cannot be configured/altered (i.e. cannot do ...
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Connect to VPN working inside WSL from Windows environment
I have a remote VPN set up, to which I can only connect to via Linux machines. As of now, I do have access from WSL to this VPN, meaning I can ping and interact with the hardware that is only visible ...
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Creating a Network interface/adapter from an ip and port
Is it possible to create a Network interface/adapter from ip 127.0.0.1 and port 8580 in Windows?
The goal is sharing the Internet that is on 127.0.0.1 with another interface.
Many VPNs like Freegate ...
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Connection reset, only from one machine, only to certain websites, and only some of the time
I am truly baffled.
I am a programmer who primarily programs in Rust. I first noticed this problem when I noticed Cargo (Rust's package manager and build system) was having trouble downloading ...
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What if I changed my subnet mask from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.255.255 on my Windows, will I be able to communicate with other hosts on my LAN? [duplicate]
Few days back, when I was surfing the admin panel of my router, I had found an IP address. I knew that this IP address was assigned to my router by my ISP. Also I knew that there are few other users ...
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How to utilize an IPv6 address on Windows Server for a service
I have a Windows Server at a data center which has a range of IPv6 addresses, for example 2000:5300:120:e5e:: (not real address) with 64 entered in the Subnet Prefix Length. I want to bind one of the ...
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Intermittent access to a folder on a network share
I and my colleagues are having some network issues. We have access to a NAS device, using Windows authentication, and each of us has that device mapped to a drive letter. Within this drive are ...
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Cannot access other computers in a private Windows network
I have set up a private network in my home with 4 computers as follows:
PC1 New desktop w/ Windows 11 Home
PC2 Laptop w/ Windows 10 Home
PC3 Desktop w/ Windows 10 Home
PC4 Old All-in One w/ ...
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Remote connection to software not working when UWF is enabled due to firewall
I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (version 10.0.17763). I've setup everything I need and I'm configuring UWF filters. I enabled protection for C: volume, and added a couple of exclusions for:
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