How to determine the ip address of the modem

Modern devices connect to the Internet - modems, routers - are configured through the control panel, which is loaded in the browser. To reach it, you can enter in the address bar of the internal IP address - it is often called the address of the modem or the router, although this is not entirely correct. To learn this address from the description of a specific device model or built-in operating system.

You will need

• ОС Windows.

Instruction

1. If the computer is running Windows 7, open the device list of the network infrastructure. This can be done in several ways - for example, through the "control Panel". Open the main menu, launch the panel by selecting its name and then select the item "Network and Internet". On the next page view basic information about your network, click the icon, which depicts a house, but it actually is a "Network". The result should open the "Explorer" window with the correct list.
2. There is a shorter path to the device list of the network infrastructure. For example, press Win, type "set" and in the list of search results, click the link "Network". Or run "Windows Explorer" using "hot keys" Win + E and in the left column click the icon "Network".
3. In the list under "Network infrastructure" should be the icon with the modem, call its context menu by right-clicking the mouse. In the commands list, select "Properties" and in the opened window go to tab "Network device". In the last row of the lower section - the "Diagnostic info" - this tab is placed need information about the IP address of the device.
4. If the IP address of the modem you need in order to be loaded into the browser control panel with this unit, use the link on the same tab. It is placed in the first section - the "device Information" - next to "Web page". However, to open the properties window of the modem it is not necessary in the device context menu in the "Explorer" window instead of "Properties" you can select "View web page"device.
5. There is no universal way to determine the internal IP address of the modem for all released in this century versions of Windows. To use it, open a command-line interface - press Win + R, type cmd and click on OK. Then type ipconfig and hit Enter. In the list displayed in the terminal information will be the IP address of the modem, but it will be named differently in different OS versions - for example, "IPv4 address" under "Ethernet adapter local area Connection".