Geek Posted September 15, 2011 Posted September 15, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/get-router-ip-address-mac.jpg" alt="Get Router IP Address from Mac OS X" title="get-router-ip-address-mac" width="611" height="134" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21282" /></p> <p>Wondering how to find the routers IP address that your Mac is connected to? It’s pretty simple:</p> <ul> <li>Launch “System Preferences” and click on “Network”</li> <li>Click on the “Advanced” button in the lower right corner</li> <li>Click on the TCP/IP tab and find the router IP next to “Router:” in the format of x.x.x.x</li> </ul> <p>In the example screenshot above, the routers address is 192.168.1.1</p> <p>To clarify here, the routers IP and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/21/find-ip-address-mac/">your own IP address</a> are different things. Being the start of a network, the access point typically holds the very first IP address on the network, ending in .1 or .100, and then individual IP’s are counted from there. If you know the format of the networks assigned IP’s you can often just guess this, because if your machines IP is 192.168.1.5 it’s a very good chance the routers is 192.168.1.1, and so on.</p> <p>So why would you need this info? For one, if you’re setting manual TCP/IP settings, but it can also be crucial for troubleshooting network issues. I had to walk someone through this over the phone this morning when troubleshooting a relatively common <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/wifi-dropping-in-os-x-lion-fixes/">Wi-Fi connectivity problem in Lion</a>, which for OS X 10.7 at least, the simplest solution is often to use <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/08/mac-wi-fi-dropping-use-a-simple-keepalive-bash-script-to-maintain-wireless-connection/">a keepalive script</a> or to ping the router to maintain constant data transfer between the Mac and elsewhere. </p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OSb_bEBWkJALUTperXfO-bE6els/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OSb_bEBWkJALUTperXfO-bE6els/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OSb_bEBWkJALUTperXfO-bE6els/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OSb_bEBWkJALUTperXfO-bE6els/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=-Gt5_CpTC4I:FIHR2mMexV4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=-Gt5_CpTC4I:FIHR2mMexV4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=-Gt5_CpTC4I:FIHR2mMexV4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=-Gt5_CpTC4I:FIHR2mMexV4:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=-Gt5_CpTC4I:FIHR2mMexV4:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=-Gt5_CpTC4I:FIHR2mMexV4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=-Gt5_CpTC4I:FIHR2mMexV4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/-Gt5_CpTC4I" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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