Date And Time; Pinging To Test Lan Connectivity; Testing The Lan Path From Your Pc To Your Router - D-Link DSR-500 User Manual

Unified Services Router
Symptom: Router can obtain an IP address, but PC is unable to load Internet pages.
Recommended action:
1.
Ask your ISP for the addresses of its designated Domain Name System (DNS) servers.
Configure your PC to recognize those addresses. For details, see your operating system
documentation.
2.
On your PC, configure the router to be its TCP/IP gateway.

11.2 Date and time

Symptom: Date shown is January 1, 1970.
Possible cause: The router has not yet successfully reached a network time s erver
(NTS).
Recommended action:
1.
If you have just configured the router, wait at least 5 minutes, select
Time Zone
2.
Verify your Internet access settings.
Symptom: Time is off by one hour.
Possible cause: The router does not automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time.
Recommended action:
1.
Administration > Time Zone
Select
Click to check or uncheck ―Automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time‖, then click
2.
Apply.

11.3 Pinging to Test LAN Connectivity

Most TCP/IP terminal devices and firewalls contain a ping utility that sends an ICMP
echo-request packet to the designated device. The DSR responds with an echo reply.
Troubleshooting a TCP/IP network is made very easy by using the ping utility in your
PC or workstation.
11.3.1 Testing the LAN path from your PC to your
router
From the PC's Windows toolbar, select Start > Run.
1.
Type ping <IP_address> where <IP_address> is the router's IP address. Example: ping
2.
192.168.10.1.
3.
Click OK.
, and recheck the date and time.
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and view the current date and time settings.
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