The Command Prompt can't function as an Internet browser, and you can't really open a website from the command line without launching a browser, but it has some useful tools. One such tool is the Ping ...

If your Android device has problems connecting to the Internet, you can see if other computers can connect over the Internet to your device. You can use the Windows command line ping tool to do this. ...

Lifehacker reader Paladin writes in with some smart command line-fu for running quick commands using command line switches: Whenever I want to do a quick "ping google.com" to see whether my network ...