diff --git a/scripts/windows_install.bat b/scripts/windows_install.bat
index fc7a86f..55d456d 100755
--- a/scripts/windows_install.bat
+++ b/scripts/windows_install.bat
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 echo Starting installation for Windows...
 
 REM Install Python dependencies from requirements.txt
+pip install pyreadline3 
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 REM Install Selenium
diff --git a/sources/llm_provider.py b/sources/llm_provider.py
index a0ecb3e..a04d620 100644
--- a/sources/llm_provider.py
+++ b/sources/llm_provider.py
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ class Provider:
             self.api_key = self.get_api_key(self.provider_name)
         elif self.provider_name != "ollama":
             pretty_print(f"Provider: {provider_name} initialized at {self.server_ip}", color="success")
-        if not self.is_ip_online(self.server_ip.split(':')[0]):
-            raise Exception(f"Server at {self.server_ip} is offline.")
 
     def get_api_key(self, provider):
         load_dotenv()
@@ -86,9 +84,11 @@ class Provider:
         """
         if not address:
             return False
-        if address.lower() in ["127.0.0.1", "localhost", "0.0.0.0"]:
+        parsed = urlparse(address if address.startswith(('http://', 'https://')) else f'http://{address}')
+
+        hostname = parsed.hostname or address
+        if "127.0.0.1" in address or "localhost" in address:
             return True
-        hostname = urlparse(f'http://{address}' if not address.startswith(('http://', 'https://')) else address).hostname or address
         try:
             ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
         except socket.gaierror:
@@ -102,15 +102,16 @@ class Provider:
         except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, subprocess.SubprocessError) as e:
             return False
 
+
     def server_fn(self, history, verbose = False):
         """
         Use a remote server with LLM to generate text.
         """
         thought = ""
-        route_setup = f"http://{self.server_ip}/setup"
-        route_gen = f"http://{self.server_ip}/generate"
+        route_setup = f"{self.server_ip}/setup"
+        route_gen = f"{self.server_ip}/generate"
 
-        if not self.is_ip_online(self.server_ip.split(":")[0]):
+        if not self.is_ip_online(self.server_ip):
             pretty_print(f"Server is offline at {self.server_ip}", color="failure")
 
         try:
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ class Provider:
             is_complete = False
             while not is_complete:
                 try:
-                    response = requests.get(f"http://{self.server_ip}/get_updated_sentence")
+                    response = requests.get(f"{self.server_ip}/get_updated_sentence")
                     if "error" in response.json():
                         pretty_print(response.json()["error"], color="failure")
                         break
@@ -275,15 +276,13 @@ class Provider:
         lm studio use endpoint /v1/chat/completions not /chat/completions like openai
         """
         thought = ""
-        route_start = f"http://{self.server_ip}/v1/chat/completions"
+        route_start = f"{self.server_ip}/v1/chat/completions"
         payload = {
             "messages": history,
             "temperature": 0.7,
             "max_tokens": 4096,
             "model": self.model
         }
-        if not self.is_ip_online(self.server_ip.split(":")[0]):
-            raise Exception(f"Server is offline at {self.server_ip}")
         try:
             response = requests.post(route_start, json=payload)
             result = response.json()
diff --git a/tests/test_provider.py b/tests/test_provider.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1cebb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_provider.py
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock
+import os, sys
+import socket
+import subprocess
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+import platform
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')))  # Add project root to Python path
+
+from sources.llm_provider import Provider
+
+class TestIsIpOnline(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.checker = Provider("ollama", "deepseek-r1:32b")
+
+    def test_empty_address(self):
+        """Test with empty address"""
+        result = self.checker.is_ip_online("")
+        self.assertFalse(result)
+
+    def test_localhost(self):
+        """Test with localhost"""
+        test_cases = [
+            "localhost",
+            "http://localhost",
+            "https://localhost",
+            "127.0.0.1",
+            "http://127.0.0.1",
+            "https://127.0.0.1:8080"
+        ]
+        for address in test_cases:
+            with self.subTest(address=address):
+                result = self.checker.is_ip_online(address)
+                self.assertTrue(result)
+
+    def test_google_ips(self):
+        """Test with known Google IPs"""
+        google_ips = [
+            "74.125.197.100",
+            "74.125.197.139",
+            "74.125.197.101",
+            "74.125.197.113",
+            "74.125.197.102",
+            "74.125.197.138"
+        ]
+        for ip in google_ips:
+            with self.subTest(ip=ip), \
+                 patch('socket.gethostbyname', return_value=ip), \
+                 patch('subprocess.run', return_value=MagicMock(returncode=0)):
+                result = self.checker.is_ip_online(ip)
+                self.assertTrue(result)
+
+    def test_unresolvable_hostname(self):
+        """Test with unresolvable hostname"""
+        address = "nonexistent.example.com"
+        with patch('socket.gethostbyname', side_effect=socket.gaierror):
+            result = self.checker.is_ip_online(address)
+            self.assertFalse(result)
+
+    def test_valid_domain(self):
+        """Test with valid domain name"""
+        address = "google.com"
+        with patch('socket.gethostbyname', return_value="142.250.190.78"), \
+             patch('subprocess.run', return_value=MagicMock(returncode=0)):
+            result = self.checker.is_ip_online(address)
+            self.assertTrue(result)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()
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