NewTek LiveText User Manual

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displays a summary when finished. Bottom line, if you can’t ping your target, your connection has
problems (the problem might be as simple as a bad cable connection.)

Finding the target IP number:
To issue a ping, you need know the IP number of the target computer.

On a Windows XP® system, you can find this number by:

(On TriCaster, click the [x] button in the upper-right corner of the screen, and select
Admin to get to the Windows Desktop.)

Next, select Network Connections from the Windows Start Menu (look in the Settings
sub-menu if it is not listed at the top level.)

Inside the Network Connections panel, right-click on the icon for your LAN (local Area
Network) and select Status. The IP Address for the system is shown on the Support tab.

Issuing a Ping
Ping is a command line program, and must be run from a command shell on the issuing
computer. To open a command shell and send a ping, follow the procedure below that applies.

Windows

On TriCaster, click the [x] button in the upper-right corner of the screen, and select
Admin to get to the Windows Desktop.

For all Windows XP® systems (including TriCaster) select the Windows Start Menu
command Run

Type “CMD” (without quotation marks) into the Run dialog panel

Press your Enter key a command shell window will open.)

Type “Ping” (without quotes) followed by a space and the target IP number, as in the
image below – then press Enter.

Figure 67

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