The chances are pretty very good that you have a wireless residence network, or you’ve been asked by good friends, household or co-workers to help install one in their home. If a program on this network has an IP address of 172.18.five.ten and an incorrect subnet mask of 255… it’ll consider that any program exactly where the 1st octet is 172 is on the very same segment it is. So even though a packet destined for the system 172.16.two.12 is on a different segment, the program with the incorrect mask will believe it is on the very same segment and will never try to use the default gateway.

After the Network and Sharing Center is open there is an selection which enables the adjust of adapter settings which is shown in the upper left hand corner of the window. Based on your router, the wireless configuration screen may perhaps contain … Read More