How to access your good router for gaming's settings: Check your IP address

1. To change your good router for gaming's settings you'll need to be able to talk to it, and to do that you need to know its IP address. Many good router for gaming use 192.168.1.1 as their default IP address, but yours might be different.

To find out for sure, connect a PC to your router's Wi-Fi network; this is most easily accomplished with a laptop, since many desktop PCs don't come with Wi-Fi connectivity built in.

2. Once you have a Windows PC connected to the good router for gaming network in question, open the Command Prompt (most easily accomplished by hitting the Start button and typing "command", then selecting Command Prompt from the results) and type ipconfig into the command line.

Scroll down the results until you see a section that reads Ethernet adapter or Wireless LAN adapter; this is your connection to your router, and the address listed next to Default Gateway is your good router for gaming's IP address.

Bonus: If you're running Windows 10 you can look up your router's IP address without accessing the Command Prompt. Instead, open the Network & Internet section of your Windows 10 Settings menu by hitting the Start key and typing "settings", hitting Enter, and then navigating to Network & Internet > Status > "View hardware and connection properties."

Scroll down the Properties list until you see an entry for Default gateway — the number listed next to it should be your good router for gaming's IP address.

 
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