This is just like restarting your computer. If the lights indicate that either devices are experiencing a problem, try unplugging them and plugging them back in. The same applies for the modem – a blinking orange light usually indicates a problem. If you see a steady, blinking orange light, that generally indicates the problem. If green lights are flashing on it, that’s normal and indicates network traffic. In some cases, the modem and router may be the same device. The modem is the device that communicates with your Internet service provider, while the router shares the connection among all the computers and other networked devices in your household. If you are experiencing problems with a variety of websites, they may be caused by your modem or router. However, if there are problems, you can’t do much more than wait for them to be fixed. You can use the traceroute command (for example, tracert ) to trace the route packets take to get to the website’s address and see if there are any problems along the way. It’s possible that there’s a problem between your computer and the path it takes to get to that website’s servers on the network. If this tool says the website is down for just you, that could indicate a number of things. If this tool says the website is down for everyone, the problem is on the website’s end. To check whether a website is working properly, you can use Down For Everyone Or Just For Me, a tool that tries to connect to websites and determine if they’re actually down or not. If you’re experiencing issues accessing websites and ping seems to be working properly, it’s possible that one (or more) websites are experiencing problems on their end. For example, ping will never results in any responses. Note that some websites never respond to pings. This problem can be with the website itself (unlikely if the same problem occurs on multiple websites), with your Internet service provider, or on your network (for example, a problem with your router). If the web server sometimes takes a much longer amount of time to respond to some of your other packets, this can also indicate a network problem. If you see packet loss (in other words, if the web server didn’t respond to one or more of the packets you sent), this can indicate a network problem. In the command below, we can see that everything is working fine – there’s 0% packet loss and the time each packet takes is fairly low. The web server responds to each packet it receives.

This command sends several packets to the address you specify.

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