# Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 3. Network Setup

## Overview

One of the first things that you will want to do is to get your Raspberry Pi connected up to the Internet.

In this lesson, you will learn how to:

- Connect using an Ethernet cable

- Connect using WiFi&nbsp;

- Find out the IP address of your Raspberry Pi

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/002/919/medium800/learn_raspberry_pi_network_LEDs.jpg?1396788862)

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