Alright. After fiddling around for 5 hours straight and reading countless useless threads on the topic, I finally got a wireless internet connection on my computer. To make a long story short, I can't access my router settings page from this computer. I type in 192.168.1.1, enter in admin, and it says the password is wrong.

now i KNOW this is nonsense because i have a second computer (laptop) on the wireless network and it has no trouble getting to 192.168.1.1

Simultaneously, my browser wasn't allowing me into certain sites like rapidshare and so on. Using my laptop, I checked the dhcp tab on the linksys settings page and it wasn't showing my computers ip address on there. there was some ip for ethernet and some ip for wireless (which i think was my laptops) but this computers ip wasn't on there. not thinking much of it, i did an ipconfig /release and /renew and now i can access rapidshare and all those sites.

except. i still can't login to the router page. any help?

maybe this will help: this morning i tried the wireless on this computer and for the first time in maybe a year the wireless worked. i checked the linksys settings page on 192.168.1.1 and the layout was completely different the normal linksys setup page. at the time i assumed this was because i was using linksys software to handle this computers wireless connections instead of the regular xp wireless configuration that the laptop was using. except when i was checking the setup page this morning, the ssid for the wireless network my computer was using wasn't even listed on the setup page! im not sure if im somehow weirdly connecting to some other router or what but this is weird.

any help?

Let me see if I understand this. You couldn't get into the router settings page from your regular computer. Then you couldn't access certain websites. You renewed your IP, and now you can access those sites, but you can't access the router settings page. Am I understanding correctly?

except. i still can't login to the router page. any help?Try resetting the password to something you choose, instead of the default. Since you said you could get to it from your laptop, you might as well try it out.

Here are a few suggestions. I'm not really an expert in networks, but I have played around with my router a fair amount.

Type in ipconfig /all on both of your computers, and make sure it reports the same default gateway, and the same subnet mask. Also, on the computer that isn't working, make sure it says "DHCP enabled.......yes"

If there are no problems there, get into the router page from your laptop, and go to the DHCP tab, and make sure the DHCP function is actually enabled.


Well, hmmmmm. After reading that last paragraph, I realize that I may not know anything about what is going on. I've never really used a wireless network before. So I might be way off, but who knows. There's always a chance.

I know Rubiks has coverd something about it above, however what it sounds like to me is that your Regular computer is probably set with a particular IP address, perhaps from before using the router in comparison to actually using the Routers NAT (Network Address Translation).

If your regular computer is running WinXP then what you should do is make sure that the computer is either using the Automatically configured IP address which should use your DHCP server from your router to set, otherwise you will have to set it by hand.

Your regular PC should have a different IP from your laptop, however they should be in the same range as the routers IP.

I.e.
Router: 192.168.1.1
Laptop: 192.168.1.2
Regular: 192.168.1.3
(The Subnet masks should also match, something like 255.255.255.0)

The Routers IP should also be classed as the "Gateway" and for the most part it will be used as your DNS server entry too.

Once you've done that you can use the Run box and type "CMD", then type "PING www.sciforums.com". If you have no packet loss, the computer is connected to the internet properly, however if you still can not browse via your browser, you either have a DNS problem or your browsers settings might have a PROXY setting that needs to be altered.