N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400 User Manual

Testing the Path from Your Computer to a Remote Device

After verifying that the LAN path works correctly, test the path from your computer to a remote device.

1.From the Windows toolbar, click the Start button, and then select Run.

2.In the Windows Run window, 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 like those shown in the previous section are displayed. If you do not receive replies:

Check that your computer has the IP address of your router listed as the default gateway. If the IP configuration of your computer is assigned by DHCP, this information is not visible in your computer’s Network Control Panel. Verify that the IP address of the router is listed as the default gateway as described in the online document you can access from “Preparing Your Network” in Appendix B.

Check to see that the network address of your computer (the portion of the IP address specified by the subnet mask) is different from the network address of the remote device.

Check that your cable or DSL modem is connected and functioning.

If your ISP assigned a host name to your computer, enter that host name as the account name in the Basic Settings screen.

Your ISP could be rejecting the Ethernet MAC addresses of all but one of your computers. Many broadband ISPs restrict access by allowing traffic only from the MAC address of your broadband modem, but some ISPs additionally restrict access to the MAC address of a single computer connected to that modem. If this is the case, you must configure your router to “clone” or “spoof” the MAC address from the authorized computer.

Problems with Date and Time

Under Content Filtering in the main menu, select E-mailto display a screen that shows the current date and time of day. The WNDR3400 router uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to obtain the current time from one of several network time servers on the Internet. Each entry in the log is stamped with the date and time of day. Problems with the date and time function can include the following:

Troubleshooting

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NETGEAR WNDR3400 user manual Problems with Date and Time, Testing the Path from Your Computer to a Remote Device