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Thread ID: 93201	2008-09-07 10:15:00	How Do You Ping A Modem-Router?	Winston001 (3612)	Press F1

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703280	2008-09-07 10:15:00	Forgive me, I know this s simle stuff to most of you. I had to wake up a router tonight and tried to get ipconfig up on the Run command. The screen appeared for about a second and then vanished. Three tries. So I tried Cmd and that stayed open. Entered "ping" and got stuff telling me is was an invalid command. Hmmm....luckily I'd written down the default ip address http://192.168.1.1 and entered that. Didn't tell me anything about packets sent and received but when I glanced at the router there were lots of lights going and I looked upon my work and saw that it was good...... Sheer luck more likely. :crying So, what should I have done and why did the ipconfig screen disappear?	Winston001 (3612)
703281	2008-09-07 10:19:00	ping 192.168.1.1 if thats the ip of the router Thats it. No " " You have to run a command from the command prompt, not run it from start/run. Thats why it closes	Speedy Gonzales (78)
703282	2008-09-07 12:43:00	ping 192.168.1.1 if thats the ip of the router Thats it. No " " You have to run a command from the command prompt, not run it from start/run. Thats why it closes Ah thanks Speedy. I didn't use the " " " " marks for ping but thanks for clarifying. And ipconfig now makes sense. Cheers	Winston001 (3612)
703283	2008-09-07 18:53:00	When I self-taught myself DOS, I found this site (www.computerhope.com) to be an enormous help. Shows the correct syntax, and gives examples :) Some of the commands are irrelevant for XP onwards, but ping and others will always have a use.	Myth (110)
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