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How to setup a home router

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by wiqi2003 1 view

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I just baught a Us Robatics router. They say that it is plug and play but is not working. I can see that activity on the ethernet port but light on front is orange its not green. I am conected to internet with the speed of 100Mb but it does not open a internet browser.
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by ariston

Most routers these days come with a web interface. Once connected and you are seeing activity on the router itself. Go to a Command Prompt (Start->Run->command), and type ipconfig and hit enter.

Verify that you are getting a valid IP address (192.168.xxx.xxx). If you are, then in a web browser, go to what is listed as the default gateway (usually 192.168.1.1) and verify that you can get to the web interface. You may need to make sure that the router is getting an IP address from your ISP.

If you continue to have trouble, then look through the manual for a method to do a full reset of the router back to its factory defaults. There is a chance the router was pre-configured incorrectly out of the box.

Hope that helps!

Ariston Collander
ariston@coxcomputer.com

by vic66

Open you I.E. explorer and on your address line type http://198.162.0.1/ this is the default address for most router and you should be able to see and configure it. And some ISP use the MAC address of your NIC card log you in...so you might have to call them....or if you are able to get to the router, configure it to use the MAC of your NIC.

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