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This has only happened just now. I installed a cable modem for my pc using a USB connection because the ethernet port could not work (I don't know why). Now the thing is, I could not open the configuration page for my router ever since the modem was installed. When I type the address for the router (192.168.1.1) nothing happens. Just a blank screen. Oh, and my router is a Linksys BEFSR41v4 and my cable modem is a Motorola SB5101i. If I'm too vauge, please tell me. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Could not access router configuration page
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Posted 15 September 2007 - 07:44 AM
IuseaPc said:
Hello!
This has only happened just now. I installed a cable modem for my pc using a USB connection because the ethernet port could not work (I don't know why). Now the thing is, I could not open the configuration page for my router ever since the modem was installed. When I type the address for the router (192.168.1.1) nothing happens. Just a blank screen. Oh, and my router is a Linksys BEFSR41v4 and my cable modem is a Motorola SB5101i. If I'm too vauge, please tell me. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
This has only happened just now. I installed a cable modem for my pc using a USB connection because the ethernet port could not work (I don't know why). Now the thing is, I could not open the configuration page for my router ever since the modem was installed. When I type the address for the router (192.168.1.1) nothing happens. Just a blank screen. Oh, and my router is a Linksys BEFSR41v4 and my cable modem is a Motorola SB5101i. If I'm too vauge, please tell me. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
If your cable modem is hooked to your computer by way of USB instead of ethernet, then how is your router hooked up, especially if your ethernet port on your computer does not work?
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Posted 16 September 2007 - 03:45 AM
Well, it used to be connected to the ethernet port of the router but since it refuses to work now, I was forced to use the USB port. The modem is installed via USB right now. It is shown as a LAN connection along with my real LAN card (intergrated). And my ethernet port in my pc works.
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Posted 16 September 2007 - 07:33 AM
IuseaPc said:
Well, it used to be connected to the ethernet port of the router but since it refuses to work now, I was forced to use the USB port. The modem is installed via USB right now. It is shown as a LAN connection along with my real LAN card (intergrated). And my ethernet port in my pc works.
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I am sorry, but that still does not specifically tell me how you have the router hooked up with the modem.
I am assuming by what you have posted that you have the modem hooked to the computer by way of the USB port. The cable line, of course, comes in to the modem. Where is the router? Is it still attached to the computer by way of the ethernet port?
What I am trying to get at (assuming that I understand your setup) is that the router is NOT doing anything. In order for the router to do something, it has to be BETWEEN your modem and the computer(s). Since just about every router that I am aware of does NOT have a USB port that can be used as the WAN port, there is NO way to hook the router up if you are using the USB port on the modem. If so, then the router is sitting there doing nothing and your computer is getting its Internet connection AND IP address from the modem and thus cannot likely access the router (assuming the router is even connected). So, even if you COULD get the router setup page, it would not really matter...the router is NOT doing anything...
Unless I misunderstand your setup...
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Posted 17 September 2007 - 02:10 AM
Ohh I get it. So that means I can't access the router's config page until it is in between the modem and pc, right? Thanks a lot! No wonder...
Wrote something wrong...changed the whole message. Edited by: IuseaPc
Wrote something wrong...changed the whole message. Edited by: IuseaPc
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Posted 17 September 2007 - 05:28 PM
IuseaPc said:
Ohh I get it. So that means I can't access the router's config page until it is in between the modem and pc, right? Thanks a lot! No wonder...
Wrote something wrong...changed the whole message. Edited by: IuseaPc
Wrote something wrong...changed the whole message. Edited by: IuseaPc
I am not completely sure if having the modem attached by USB and getting an IP address/connection would prevent you from getting to the router setup page or not. I have never been in such a situation to test it out and see. Regardless, the key point is that if the modem is attached by USB and the router is attached by a seperate ethernet port and thus the modem connection does NOT travel THROUGH the router, then getting into the configuration page is completel irrelevent. In such a setup, the router is doing absolutely nothing in terms of your Internet connection. Think of the router as like a pair of headphones and the broadband modem as a walkman or MP3 player. If you don't hook the headphones into the MP3 player or walkman, then the headphones won't do much (OK, so not a great example, but all I could think of at the moment).
If you REALLY want to get to your router's setup page and test if the modem is blocking that access, then unplug the USB cable from the modem to the computer. You should then be able to go to the router's setup page. It will not mean much, but you will be able to do it.
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Posted 18 September 2007 - 03:33 AM
Thanks! Apparently I finally managed to access the config page. Found out in Network Connections. The Local Area Connection's TCP/IP settings are set to manually get an IP. When I set it to Obtain an IP automatically, I finally managed to get through! Thanks for all your help though. All your efforts are worth it. P.S. About the example, it's no prob. Now, where am I going to get some additional USB ports...
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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:01 AM
IuseaPc said:
Thanks! Apparently I finally managed to access the config page. Found out in Network Connections. The Local Area Connection's TCP/IP settings are set to manually get an IP. When I set it to Obtain an IP automatically, I finally managed to get through! Thanks for all your help though. All your efforts are worth it. P.S. About the example, it's no prob. Now, where am I going to get some additional USB ports...
Why do you need additional USB ports? I am assuming that because you are using a USB port for the router, you are running out of USB ports. If so, then you have a couple of options. One would be to get a USB hub. If you go this route, it is best to get a powered USB hub. If you get a bus powered USB hub, then you will have more limited ability to use bus powered USB devices (i.e. keyboards, mice, flash drives, etc) as such hubs draw their power from the computer's USB port. A powered USB hub has its own power supply and thus is much better at handling multiple bus powered USB devices. The other option would be to get a USB expansion card to put in an expansion slot of your computer.
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