Sometimes you need to check some port to the destination address or IP. How to do that? Now I will show you a simple and fast method to do that using Windows PowerShell.
Let’s check whether a remote network port is open and listening or not.

How to start PowerShell on windows 10?

Method 1

Go to the start menu and find the Windows PowerShell folder and select PowerShell.

Method 2

Going to RUN \ powershell

And in PowerShell window write tnc bing.com -port 80

This command is a short way to Test-network connection. You can also put an IP address instead of the hostname.

The TNC command gives you basic information about the network connection like computer name, IP address. TcpTest will give you True if the port is open and false if the port is closed.

This command is very useful when you are troubleshooting a network.