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6.3 Pinging the Router from Your Computer
The default gateway IP address of the router is 192.168.1.1. For some reason, you might need
to use “ping” command to check the link status of the router.
The most important thing is
that the computer will receive a reply from 192.168.1.1.
If not, please check the IP address
of your computer. We suggest you setting the network connection as
get IP automatically
.
(Please refer to the section 4.2)
Please follow the steps below to ping the router correctly.
For Windows
1.
Open the
Command
Prompt window (from
Start menu> Run
).
2.
Type
command
(for Windows 95/98/ME) or
cmd
(for Windows NT/ 2000/XP). The
DOS command dialog will appear.
3.
Type ping 192.168.1.1 and press [Enter]. If the link is OK, the line of
“Reply from
192.168.1.1:bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255”
will appear.
4.
If the line does not appear, please check the IP address setting of your computer.
For MacOs (Terminal)
1.
Double click on the current used MacOs on the desktop.
2.
Open the
Application
folder and get into
Utilities
.
3.
Double click
Terminal
. The Terminal window will appear.
4.
Type
ping 192.168.1.1
and press [Enter]. If the link is OK, the line of
“64 bytes from
192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=xxxx ms
” will appear.