A port is a gateway on a computer through which a connection is established. To test the network and Internet connection in your business, test the connection port using the Telnet utility in Windows.

Poor telnet, it used to be the cool kid on the block. It was the program all sysadmins turned to when they needed to connect to a remote server. Telnet just wasn't that good at keeping a secret—all ...

I had an interesting question posed to me yesterday. What is the command on a Windows 2003 system that will verify that a port is open on a remote machine?<br><br>Im aware of netstat -an on the local ...