Network Settings for Your Computer 
 

Network Settings for Your Computer           
For a computer to be part of a network it must be connected to the network, share the same network address as the other computers on the network and have the same workgroup or domain name. In this lab you will view your current network settings using various tools

IPConfig

  1. Go to Start > Run > Command. This will open up a DOS screen. While in DOS type in ipconfig..  What information is displayed?

  2. Type in ipconfig  /?   What information is displayed this time? The /? switch is the way to get help with DOS commands.

  3. What does ipconfig  /all do? Try this command and write down some of the NEW information displayed.

Ping

  1. Go to Start > Run > Command. In the DOS screen type the following command: Ping 10.5.64.1
    What information is displayed? Copy it here.
     
  2. Type ping Microsoft.com  What information is displayed?

  3. Type ping www.seq.org  What information is displayed?\

    Tracert Command
  1. The Tracert command actually shows the steps that a packet follows as it travels from your computer to the destination IP address. At the command prompt type “tracert yahoo.com”. The ms stands for milliseconds, which hop took the longest? Copy down the line with the longest hop.

  2. Unfortunately home networks and often school networks block the tracert results but you can get around this by going to a web site that offers these tools. The site will perform a ping or tracert command for you from their location. This is often used by network administrators when they are bringing a web site on-line, they want to be sure that the site can be reached by computers that are NOT on their network. Go to network-tools.com/. What are some of the tools this one interface provides?

  3. Select Trace and then type yahoo.com in place of the IP address that is shown. How many hops did it take to get to Yahoo.com?

  4. Which hop took the longest time? Copy down the information for that hop.

  5. You can also map this information so you can watch the path of the packets by using a visual trace route application. Go to http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/ Copy the following IP address into the remote address box and then perform a proxy trace: 147.67.119.20. This is the IP address of Europa - the web site for the European Union. Describe the path to your destination address.

  6. What are some of the different types of information this application provides?

Speed Test

  1. How fast is your Internet connection? If you are paying your ISP for 6Mbps then you should be getting that type of service consistently but how do you know? How can you test the speed of your connection? Go to google and type in Speed Test. Choose the Speakeasy Speed Test link that comes up. Since San Francisco is the closest location choose that as the location. Run the test.

  2. List your download speed and your upload speed.

  3. The upload speed is typically much slower than the download speed, why is this usually not an issue for most users?

  4. Demonstrate the ipconfig, ping and tracert commands for teacher check_______________________

A Different type of Speed Test

  1. Go to http://www.monitis.com/pageload/ and test my website - slant.seq.org/~cdodge. Even though you were only downloading a single page how many requests were made to the server?
  2. Which component of the web page took the longest to download?
  3. Which component was the fastest to download?
  4. Why would you want to use this test on your web site?