The purpose of this tutorial is to beginners some insight into TCP/IP settings. For this guide I will be using Microsoft Windows XP, but the version of the operating system you are using doesn’t really matter. If you are using a different version of Windows, you should be able to find the same settings that I talk about in the tutorial, but there may be a different way of getting to those settings.

Note: I haven’t had much experience using Microsoft Windows Vista yet, so I cannot go into detail on how to change these settings network settings in Windows Vista. I am sure there is a different (and possible more difficult) way to change the settings in Windows Vista than there is in the previous versions of Microsoft Windows.

First we need to find the TCP/IP properties window. Open the control panel and click the “Network Connections” icon.

The Network connections window will open. All of your available network connections will be listed. I only have one network interface listed, which is my Local Area Network (LAN) card. You could have several options listed here both physical connections and virtual. For example if you had a wireless network car, and a wired network card, you would see both of these listed. An example of a virtual connection, meaning that there is no physical adapter, would be a Virtual Private Network (VPN). VPN’s are well beyond the scope of the tutorial, but I wanted to give you an example of the icons that you may see. My listing is pictured below.

I will be explaining the settings of a standard wired connection. Right click on your Local Area Network connection and select properties.

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