Linksys NWR04B Appendix B: How to Ping Your ISPs E-mail and Web Addresses

Wireless Cable/DSLRouter

Network Everywhere®Series

3. At the DOS command prompt, type “ping mail” (assuming that the loca-

tion for which you’re trying to find an IPaddress is conf igured as “mail”).

Press Enter. Information such as the following data, taken from a ping of

Microsoft Network’s e-mail server, will be displayed.

4. Write down the IP address returned by the ping command. (In the

example above:24.53.32.4.) This IP address is the actual IP address of the

server “mail,” or any other word or value you have pinged.

Step Two:Pinging for a Web Address

While the IPaddress retur ned above would work as your e-mail server address,

it may not be permanent. IPaddresses change all the time. Web addresses, how-

ever, usually don’t. Because of this, you’re likely to have fewer problems by

configuring your system with web addresses rather than IP addresses. Follow

the instructions below to find the web address assigned to the IP address you

just pinged.

1. At the DOS command prompt, type “ping -a 24.53.32.4,” where

24.53.32.4 is the IPaddress you just pinged. Information such as the fol-

lowing data will be displayed.

C:\>ping mail

Pinging mail [24.53.32.4] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 24.53.32.4: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 24.53.32.4:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0%

loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Appendix B: How to Ping YourISP’s E-mail and Web Addresses

Virtually all Internet addresses are configured with words or characters (i.e.,

www.networkeverywhere.com, www.yahoo.com, etc.) In actuality, however,

these Internet addresses are assigned to IP addresses, which are the true

addresses on the Internet.

IP and web addresses, however, can sometimes be long and hard to remember.

Because of this, certain ISPs will shorten their server addresses to single words

or codes on their users’web browser or e-mail configurations. If your ISP’s e-

mail and web server addresses are configured with single words (“www,” “e-

mail,” “home,” “pop3,” etc.) rather than whole Internet Addresses or IP

Addresses, the Router may have problems sending or receiving mail and

accessing the Internet. This happens because the Router has not been config-

ured by your ISP to accept their abbreviated server addresses.

The solution is to determine the true web addresses behind your ISP’s code

words. You can determine the IP and webaddresses of your ISP’s servers by

“pinging”them.

Step One:Pinging an IP Address

The first step to determining your ISP’s web and e-mail server address is to

ping its IPaddress.

1. Power on the computer and the cable or DSL modem, and restore the

network configuration set by your ISP if you have since changed it.

2. Click Start, then Run, and type “command.” This will bring up the DOS

window.

NNoottee::If you don’t have your ISP’s web and e-mail IPaddresses, you must

either get them from your ISP or follow these steps prior to connecting the

Router to your network.