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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: karajorma on February 09, 2010, 11:11:46 am

Title: Router issues
Post by: karajorma on February 09, 2010, 11:11:46 am
Okay, I'm posting this one here cause I'm stumped.

I've just tried to get to my router (at 192.168.1.1) and I got the message "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."

IE simply hangs.

Tried this on the creaky old PC the university gave me and it gives me an unable to connect message. Both PCs can connect to the internet through this router though. I've checked and the router definitely is at that address. I've even used the route command from DOS to check that I haven't set up anything funky there but nope, it's fine.

I'm somewhat reluctant to simply reset the router to factory settings as the router is Chinese and I very much doubt I'd be able to set the damn thing up again on my own. :p

Any ideas what the hell could be going on?
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: Bobboau on February 09, 2010, 11:18:47 am
have you tried restarting it? not reseting but just unplugging it and plugging it back in?
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: karajorma on February 09, 2010, 11:29:44 am
Strange. I tried that twice yesterday to no effect but today it worked. :D
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on February 09, 2010, 11:37:40 am
I used to get the same error attempting to sign in to Windows Live Mail about half a year ago. To my knowledge, it's a server and/or ISP issue, not an error on your end.

Oh, and I'm still getting session timed out errors on HLP, if that makes you feel a little better.
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: karajorma on February 09, 2010, 12:02:27 pm
Well the reset seems to have fixed it now. Of course now I'm wondering why I can connect my Blackberry to this router wirelessly if I set the address statically on the phone but get an error about being unable to get an IP address out of the router if I attempt to get one from DHCP.

This might be an easier one to solve if the router was in English or if I spoke Chinese of course. :p
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: TESLA on February 09, 2010, 12:47:54 pm
Strange. I tried that twice yesterday to no effect but today it worked. :D

similar thing happened to me,

no matter what i did, nothing worked...

even thumping :)  :drevil:

But for some reason the next day it just worked..............................


Routers are strange fickel things.. Logic does not work with them, they work when they want to work
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: Stealth on February 09, 2010, 04:51:21 pm
DHCP not working correctly on a home router isn't unheard of.
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: karajorma on February 09, 2010, 07:15:45 pm
The weird thing is that I'm speaking from a laptop which has been provisioned an address over wireless via DHCP from the same router. Never had a moment's trouble with it.
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on February 09, 2010, 10:24:03 pm
Router may only have 1 (or limited) DHCP lease.  Netopia routers were good for that back when SBC first started doing DSL.  Phone company had to activate it to allow more then one address and enable the firewall.  Now you can just go to support and give them the serial number and get it that way. 

So the first device to grab the lease gets it.  Resetting it may not clear the lease but it may expire in 24 hours giving the other device a chance to grab it. 
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: DeepSpace9er on February 09, 2010, 10:29:25 pm
This problem smells suspiciously like Linksys.
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: karajorma on February 09, 2010, 11:02:53 pm
Nope. Definitely not a Linksys. (http://www.9igo.com/list.asp?id=706)
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on February 09, 2010, 11:17:05 pm
Model number kind of looks like something linksys would use.  Could be a knockoff. 
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on February 10, 2010, 09:11:30 am
Pardon my lack of experience with routers, but that one looks a lot like a Linksys too.
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: Hippo on February 11, 2010, 08:50:12 am
linksys and netgear both use a standardized model numbering method that are very similar, which i assume is part of some ISO. doesnt have that much of a linksys look to it to me
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on February 11, 2010, 09:04:32 am
I thought it looked quite similar to this guy (http://www.a-soko.com/images/LinksysRouter.jpg). :nervous:
Title: Re: Router issues
Post by: Hippo on February 11, 2010, 09:08:01 am
but all linksys' new routers look like this - have for a few years now

(http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/Staples/s0248866_sc7?$sku$)


which makes it infuriating when a customer comes in (i work at staples) and grabs their wireless g access point which 'looked' like their old router, and then comes back an hour later to complain