Testing The Lan Path To Your Wireless Access Point; Testing The Path From Your Computer To A Remote Device - NETGEAR ProSafe WG102-500 Reference Manual

WG102-500, WGAP150 ProSafe™ 802.11g Wireless Access Point
Troubleshooting a TCP/IP network is made very easy by using the ping utility in your
computer.

Testing the LAN Path to Your Wireless Access Point

You can ping the wireless access point from your computer to verify that the LAN path to your
wireless access point is set up correctly.
To ping the wireless access point from a PC running Windows 95 or later:
1. From the Windows toolbar, click the Start button, and select Run.
2. In the field provided, type Ping followed by the IP address of the wireless access point, as in
this example:
ping 192.168.0.229
3. Click OK.
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 functioning correctly, you could have one of the following problems:
• Wrong physical connections
- Make sure the LAN LED is on. If the LED is off, follow the instructions in
LAN LED is Not Lit" on page
- Check that the corresponding Link LEDs are on for your network interface
card and for the hub ports (if any) that are connected to your workstation and
wireless access point.
• Wrong network configuration
- Verify that the Ethernet card driver software and TCP/IP software are both
installed and configured on your PC or workstation.
- Verify that the IP address for your wireless access point and your workstation
are correct and that the addresses are on the same subnet.

Testing the Path from Your Computer to a Remote Device

After verifying that the LAN path works correctly, test the path from your PC to a remote
device.
1. From the Windows toolbar, click the Start button, and select Run.
2. In the Windows Run window, type:
112.
"The
| 115