One of the most essential Windows (or any OS) tools in my opinion is a simple network usage monitor that displays live network bandwidth usage on your taskbar or anywhere that is visible all the time, the reason for this is to be able to see in real time what’s happening on your device on the network level…
My beautiful home network is an ongoing project that was inspired by my needs, as a network security professional and as someone who is looking at packets for a living, whenever i had any issues with my home network like having no internet, before calling the ISP, it came like second nature to ping the local gateway first (which was my router at the time, then evolved into a Sophos UTM running on an Oracle Virtualbox Virtual Machine on Ubuntu Linux on an Intel NUC located somewhere at home), then check the status of the ADSL modem, the physical line and the status of the router connected to the ADSL modem, check whether the DNS is working correctly and maybe take some packet captures on the router.
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