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    mayrelu Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Nov 10, 2009, 12:45 PM
    Lyksys Wireless G Router WCG200 model
    Hi, I'm new to this group and am a single parent. Everything I do around my home I need to do myself as I have no help. It's really not usually an issue. I can pretty much figure anything out. HOWEVER, I am trying to access my routers web page (198.168.1.1) and can not. There are several other people recently out on the WWW that I guess are having the same issues but the fixes to their questions are not working for me.

    I've reset this thing dozens of times across the last 8 years since I've owned it. Every time, I have an issue with it. It's so convoluted I may just need a different router. Something a little less complicated to set up.

    Today I wanted to add my work computer to our network. I opened my browser, typed in my routers ip address (as I have successfully done in the past) and it comes up with either a page not found or a Google list of places with that number in it included other peoples questions on the same problem.

    I've called lynksys and I've called Comcast neither of which can answer my questions for less than 200.00 dollars.

    I've ipconfig'ed my router and have the address and still can get access to it on the web.

    I am running windows xp directly cabled to my router downstairs. I'm running Vista on my laptop wirelessly with an 801 card.

    The ultimate goal for accessing the ip address is that I want to set up a security enabled network. Currently it's open and I don't like that but I don't know how to do it so its just stayed that way.

    If anyone has any suggestions I could sure use the help. Thanks. Marylou
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    Nov 10, 2009, 01:23 PM

    I would hook up with a cable, type in, at the CMD Prompt: Tracert 4.2.2.1 and see what shows up, should be the first number.
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    Nov 10, 2009, 03:16 PM

    An alternate strategy to what Stratmando said, would be to open a command prompt window and type ipconfig, then look at what it says under "Default Gateway"

    You say you already have the IP, and 192.168.1.1 is generally what linksys routers are by default (though I've also seen 192.168.15.1), so perhaps your browser just isn't understanding what you want to do when you type the IP in. Try http://192.168.1.1/ instead of just 192.168.1.1 and see if that helps. It tells the browser that you specifically want a webpage from that IP.
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