Re: Network help anyone?


"Johnathan" <cliffwild@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u3YUg6WkGHA.4200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
R. McCarty wrote:
Unless specifically changed - ALL routers (by vendor) use a generic
User/Password combination. Check the manual or visit the vendor
website to obtain your unit's default values. You can always do a
factory reset - but that removes all custom settings.

I do remember changing the password at one time but have since forgotten it. I have no idea why I ever thought I would need to change it to start with. I am pretty sure there were no settings I needed to change other that port forwarding. I am trying to avoid resetting it if I can fix this problem otherwise.



Always a good idea to change the default passwords on
router type things ... especially if wireless is involved - notice
that funny car parked out front with the Pringles can
pointed at your house ?? Nothing quite like
"drive by networking" - you might look in the router manual
and see if you were clever enough to write the password
there. First rule of passwords -- NEVER change them
before the weekend, vacation or whatever - no matter
how "easy" it seems at the time, all clues will be lost when
you come back ;-) If you can't find the router manual,
you can go to the mfgrs website usually and download
a copy of the manual. Might even be a good time to
update it to the latest firmware .... well, maybe after
you get the rest of this working. Bottom line, unless
they are going thru a router, all devices on your local
network MUST be on the same subnet or they will NOT
talk to each other. Trick to networking is to check out
one portion at a time and get it working then move on
to the next - trying to fix everything at once won't usually
work. In this case, your network address is the 192.168.2.0
and the host id's on that address will be 0-255 ... sort of.
The "0" is actually reserved as the network address, 255
is the broadcast address and in your case, 1 is the host
address of the LAN side of the router so 2-253 is the
ones your other devices should use.

mikey

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