Hi,

What do you mean "ping"?

My laptop is connected to a router via LAN, the router is connected to the PC via LAN.

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Hi Dfhagai,

Pinging is a test routine, which checks wether you have successfully established a connection to another computer in any given network - it will help you find out if an eventual communication problem you´re experiencing is caused by your computer, the connection or the remote device.

You can ping any device that uses Internet Protocol (IP), such as a computer, a network printer or a LAN router.

If you are on Mac, here is what you do:

1. Open Network Utility from the Utilities folder in your Applications folder

2. Select the Ping tab on top and click the Ping button in it

3. Type the IP address or DNS name of the device you´re trying to contact (your slave computer or the router) and click the Ping button.

4. If the other device responds to your ping, your basic connection is good.

If this does not help you, please give us a little more information about your setup for both machines, i.e. OS (Mac or PC?), CPU, LAN router, version of VE Pro...etc..., as well as your network settings on both your computers, i.e. IP addresses, wether you are using DHCP, masks...etc... so we can better narrow down the problem.

Best, Marnix

OK.

Just pinged my laptop and got positive results:

Now what?

Is this OK?

Bump

???

Last try before I'll have to give up VEPRO...

I think that you'll have to email support@vsl.co.at because networking is a strange beast.

The only things that i can think of are:

1. Are you using fixed IP?
2. Are you using a router or a switch (a router is a bad idea)?
3. Is the Firewall off on both PCs?

DG

Now your talking :)

Kicked firewall out on both computers, and it worked.

Don't remember reading anything about it in the manual though...

Respect,

HD

OK, now that it's working, you can switch on the Firewall if you need to, but you need to make an exception for the port that VEP uses. However, I can't remember what port that is, so you might need to do a bit of reading.

However, if your PCs are not connected to the Internet you can safely leave the Firewall off.

DG