# How to connect a gateway to my Designer Launcher

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-connect-a-gateway-to-my-designer-launcher/88281>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 3, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-connect-a-gateway-to-my-designer-launcher/88281 "2024-04-03T12:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Alaco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alejandro_alaco/32/59849_2.png) [@Alejandro\_Alaco](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alejandro_Alaco)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-connect-a-gateway-to-my-designer-launcher/88281/1 "2024-04-03T12:05:19Z")

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Hello!

I got my Ignition gateway running in a local computer, and I have Ignition designer runnning in another laptop computer. Would like to connect the Igntion designer to the gateway suing IP.  
Can it be done adding Manually the Ip [http://xxx.xxx.0.44:8088](http://xxx.xxx.0.44:8088)  
when i add the ip, it shows host unreachable but they are in the same place

or is more complex than that?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-connect-a-gateway-to-my-designer-launcher/88281/2 "2024-04-03T12:09:09Z")

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If you are using Windows, it is not uncommon for the default firewall settings to be a problem for external connections.

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-connect-a-gateway-to-my-designer-launcher/88281/3 "2024-04-03T12:09:48Z")

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Debug in stages.

1. If you point your browser at [http://xxx.xxx.0.44:8088](http://xxx.xxx.0.44:8088/) does the gateway homepage load?
2. Can you `ping xxx.xxx.0.44`?

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**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Alaco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alejandro_alaco/32/59849_2.png) [@Alejandro\_Alaco](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alejandro_Alaco)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-connect-a-gateway-to-my-designer-launcher/88281/5 "2024-04-03T14:25:21Z")

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Thanks to you both!

Combining the firewall on pause and the ping to the ip to make sure it reach it I was able to connect my Ignitin designer from one computer to my Ignition Gateway in another.