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Mephisto_Helix

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Hey peeps. I wonder if anyone could help here. My brother had ADSL a while ago and when he left the country I got the modem. It's an SMC ADSL2 Barricade Broadband Router btw. So, the other day in anticipation of finally getting my connection, I decided to test the thing and went into the interface fine and set up a dummy account to see how it worked. No problems and everything was cool. Now today, I got my ADSL confirmation and I was gonna sign up with an ISP tomorrow but when I tried the same accessing the interface wizard .... PROBLEM. The browser won't go to the addy that I put in and so I can't access the setup wizard. What happened and what could I possibly do to fix it. I've tried what the SMC website faq tells you to do without success and am now at wits end.

Any help info, help, suggestions welcome.

Thanks :)
 
are you sure your using the correct ip to access the interface/menu if this is how your accessing the setup menu, ping for a response, try telnet access if the web interface is not responding
 
Did you enable a proxy server in your browser?

If you did, disable it first and then go into your router setup.

I have the same router and encountered this problem once.
 
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"are you sure your using the correct ip to access the interface/menu" -- the same one as in the manual


"if this is how your accessing the setup menu, ping for a response, try telnet access if the web interface is not responding" --- I'm afraid thats a whole lotta tech garble to me :)

Zenabi --- no proxy enabled bru. I'm truly stumped now.
 
Do an ipconfig and make sure you getting a valid IP, if not set your PC IP to the same range as the router, reset (power cycle) the router for good measure and try again.
 
I tried this earlier (some1 else mentioned it) -- Run -- type cmd -- type ipconfig. Is that what you're talking about coz that did nothing at all. I didn't get any numbers back or anything. Plus being such the tech noob ...

"make sure you getting a valid IP, if not set your PC IP to the same range as the router, reset (power cycle) the router for good measure and try again. " --- afraid it makes no sense to me. Maybe you could elaborate?

Thanks.

(P.S this is the online tip I tried too with no luck:

Click the Start menu button on the Windows taskbar.

Click Run... on this menu.

If the computer is holding a current IP address, type 'cmd' (without the quotes) in the text box that appears. A command prompt window appears on the screen.

Type 'ipconfig' (without the quotes) to view the status of the computer's IP address(es).

If the computer is holding a current IP address, type 'ipconfig /release' to let go of the address.

Type 'ipconfig /renew' to obtain a new IP address (whether or not the computer is holding a current address).
 
it should list your network card(s) and give you the IP assignments. Try control panel > network connections, and click on your local lan on the left of the screen in the blue window you should see the IP address of the connection it should be 10.0.x.x, or 192.168.x.x
 
Gunny ... there isn't anything at all in network connections, it's a complete lan or internet virgin. I tried setting up a new connection but obviously I need the ISP password first. Thats when I went and tried the whole 'dummy' account thing and couldn't access the interface. I open Iexplore --- type in the addy http://192.168.2.1 to get to the login page ... and thats when nothing happens except for the 'Page cannot be displayed'. :(
 
If there is nothing in your network connection display then your PC or OS is not picking up your network card. You might have to reseat the card or if it is onboard load drivers again.

Reboot your PC first then check for a LAN connection in network connections again. If not check in your device manager for conflicts or unknown devices. If you have an unknown device right click it > update drivers and then load the card driver.
 
Ok, it's onboard lan. Went to the device manager (no conflicts or unknown devices) and at first couldn't find and network adapters, went to view--checked 'show hidden devices' saw all network stuff. Checked each one and they are all enabled and working properly (well so it says anyway). Reloaded drivers from disk .... nothings changed. This is starting to look like an XP problem isn't it. Pls tell me I'm not gonna have to format and reinstall XP. :(
 
try a differenet network cable, if the router has a switch build in, try a different port, on the pc try an alternative network card
 
btw if dhcp is disabled on the router try to manually assign the card an ip, class a/b/c whichever is the routers default ip class
 
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