HOW TO PING A IP ADDRESS WITH TCP PORT AND CHECK POWER SHELL VER: -

Testing Network connection.

Ping: You can test if a network connection exists by pinging the other computer.

• Open a command prompt
• Type “ping <Remote Machine Name or IP address> -t” and press enter.

Test-Netconnection [IP ADDRESS OF SERVER PC] -Port [Port]

Test-Netconnection: You should also test the connection using Test-Netconnection as this allows you to specify the TCP port.

Open a command in Windows PowerShell Ver 4.0

Check the Windows PowerShall Version command:  

$PSVersionTable.PSVersion

• Open a Windows Powershall
• Type in "Test-Netconnection [IP ADDRESS OF SERVER PC] -PORT[PORT]" and press enter.
• For example: - we would type “Test-Netconnection 172.16.0.168 -Port 8100”

• If you receive a connecting... message or an error message then something is blocking that port.  It could be the Windows firewall, a third party firewall like Norton's or a hardware firewall between the PCs.

What a successful test will tell you:

• If you can both ping and Test-Netconnection to the other computer, this shows that there is a network connection and the port is open between the two computers.