Testing The Lan Path To Your Gateway; Testing The Path From Your Pc To A Remote Device - NETGEAR CG3000D-1CXNAS User Manual

Wireless Cable Gateway CG3000D-1CXNAS

Testing the LAN Path to Your Gateway

You can use ping to verify that the LAN path to your gateway is set up correctly.
To ping the gateway from a PC running Windows 95 or later:
From the Windows toolbar, click on the Start button and select Run.
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In the field provided, type Ping followed by the IP address of the gateway, as in this
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example:
ping 192.168.0.1
Click OK.
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You should see a message like this one:
Pinging <IP address> with 32 bytes of data
If the path is working, you see this message:
Reply from < IP address >: bytes=32 time=NN ms TTL=xxx
If the path is not working, you see this message:
Request timed out
If the path is not working correctly, you could have one of the following problems:
Wrong physical connections.
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Make sure the LAN port LED is on. If the LED is off, see
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Troubleshoot"
Check that the corresponding Link LEDs are on for your network interface card
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and for the hub ports (if any) that are connected to your workstation and gateway.
Wrong network configuration.
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Verify that the Ethernet card driver software and TCP/IP software are both
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installed and configured on your PC or workstation.
Verify that the IP address for your gateway and your workstation are correct and
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that the addresses are on the same subnet.

Testing the Path from Your PC to a Remote Device

After verifying that the LAN path works correctly, test the path from your PC to a remote
device. From the Windows run menu, type:
PING -n 10 <IP address>
where <IP address> is the IP address of a remote device such as your ISP's DNS server.
If the path is functioning correctly, replies as in the previous section are displayed. If you do
not receive replies:
on page 39.
"Using LEDs to
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