NE 1 Help With router Problem

Doofy · 23-01-2004, 20:20

Hi there one and all.

I am new to this game and i hope this is posted in the right place, I have hooked up two pc's mine downstairs,one upstairs no problems there all works fine, internet on both email etc printer sharing everything. Thing is just the past two days i have no email on this PC although the PC upstairs is fine. Other thing is when i try to access the router by the ip 192.168 etc etc i cant get in keeps saying Page cannot be displayed etc. any one got any ideas aprt from installing win XP again because i actually hate it

Many thanx for any input

eddie00001 · 23-01-2004, 20:25

What router do you have?

When attempting to access the router are you typing in http://192.168.1.1 as that should get you access, probably need to type in a password like admin or something similar.

Tricky · 23-01-2004, 20:25

have you changed your subnet mask at all?

Doofy · 23-01-2004, 20:29

It's a mentor router says adsl firewall router on the box i do typ http://192,168.1.1 and i used to get in the router came up with the login etc
now it just says page cannot be displayed, it was all ok up untill the past two days then god knows what happened

eddie00001 · 23-01-2004, 20:35

Are other webpages ok on that PC?

mrm1 · 23-01-2004, 20:54

On my Belkin router, I have locked access to just two i.p addresses. If you have done the same and your PC has changed its IP address that could cause these problems.

eddie00001 · 23-01-2004, 21:08

On my Linksys I find at time I can't access webpages and all it requires is that I press the 'reset' button on the front of the router. Have you anything like that?

Emperordalek · 23-01-2004, 22:17

You haven't chosen a proxy server in the LAN connections have you?

I found that I couldn't access my Linksys router when this was selected. Unticking the box enables access again.

Failing that I would reset to factory settings if this isn't the problem

MadGamer · 23-01-2004, 22:22

Have you tried resetting the router?

Doofy · 24-01-2004, 00:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by WNA

Have you tried resetting the router?

Well for some reason i dont know why, when i turned on the pc upstairs the
one downstairs came up wit the message a computer with the same ip address
has just logged on the network, so in frustration i formatted the hard drive reinstalled the windows and all was well again, email and router sorted. so next question does any know what i did wrong?. Second question am i the only one who does not like win xp?

Thanks all

Kaos2004 · 24-01-2004, 17:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doofy

Well for some reason i dont know why, when i turned on the pc upstairs the
one downstairs came up wit the message a computer with the same ip address
has just logged on the network, so in frustration i formatted the hard drive reinstalled the windows and all was well again, email and router sorted. so next question does any know what i did wrong?. Second question am i the only one who does not like win xp?

Thanks all

Seems a bit extreme to format the drive and re-install just cos it came up with that. Why didnt you just change the IP on one of the pc's or set both to get an IP via DHCP and make sure your router was set to assign via DHCP?

GeoffW · 24-01-2004, 20:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaos2004

Seems a bit extreme to format the drive and re-install just cos it came up with that. Why didnt you just change the IP on one of the pc's or set both to get an IP via DHCP and make sure your router was set to assign via DHCP?

My thoughts were the same as Kaos, the other PC lost or had a conflicting IP address. Just open a dos command prompt and do an ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew.