How to find the Internet gateway

The first and most reliable way to know the connection settings of a network is to contact support of your provider. This data can be useful when you first set up the computer connection to the Internet.

If your connection works and gets the settings automatically, you can recognize them in the following way: click "start" on the desktop, from the main menu, select "Run".

Type cmd, hit OK. In the opened command prompt window type ipconfig /all .

On the displayed list of settings, look for the line Default gateway (translates as "default gateway"). Address, standing in front of this string is the address of your gateway.

There are other ways to learn the gateway address. For example, you can see it in the properties window, connect the network card of your computer to the Internet. To do this, open the main menu of the computer "start" button, find "control Panel" and under "setup" click the line Network connections.

You will see a folder with shortcuts to all created connections. Find the current and call its shortcut menu. Select the "Status" window will open with information about the Internet connection. Select the tab "Support". The address of the default gateway of this connection placed on it in the bottom row.

If the Internet connection is not directly, but through a router (router), default gateway of your computer to perform this router. Then obtained by the method described above address will be his address for the internal network. In order to circumvent this obstacle, it is necessary to connect cable Internet connection to your network card on your computer directly, or contact the helpdesk of your provider and specify the default gateway address.