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Appendices
Corinex ADSL2+ Wireless Gateway G
WINIPCFG - Configuration utility based on the Win32 API for querying,
defining, and managing IP addresses within a network. A commonly used utility for
configuring networks with static IP addresses.
WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) - A group of computers and associated
devices that communicate with each other wirelessly.
Workgroup - Two or more individuals that share files and databases.
Appendix D:
How to Ping Your ISP’s Email
and Web Addresses
Virtually all Internet addresses are configured with words or characters (e.g.,
www.corinex.com
,
www.yahoo.com
, etc.) However, recently these Internet
addresses are assigned to IP addresses, which are the true addresses on the
Internet. For example,
www.corinex.com
is recently
81.0.193.56
at the time of
producing this manual. If you type this address into your web browser, you will end
up at the Corinex home page every time.
Some servers translate the URL to an IP address, so called DNS (Domain Name
System) Servers. However, IP and web addresses can be long and hard to remem-
ber sometimes. From this reason, certain ISPs will shorten their server addresses
to single words or codes on their users’ web browser or e-mail configurations. If
your ISP’s email and web server addresses are configured with single words (www,
e-mail, home, pop3, etc.) rather than entire Internet addresses or IP addresses, the
Access Point may have problems by sending or receiving mail and by accessing the
Internet.
The solution is to determine the true web addresses behind your ISPs code words.
You can determine the IP and web addresses of your ISP’s servers by “pinging”
them.
Important: If you don’t have your ISP’s web and e-mail IP addresses, you must
either get them from your ISP or follow these steps prior to connecting your
Corinex ADSL2+ Wireless Gateway G to your network.
D.1 Step One: Pinging an IP Address
The first step to determining your ISP’s web and e-mail server address is to ping
its IP address.