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If the IP addresses posted above fail, try using your default gateway IP instead.

To find your default gateway, click on Start, Control Panel, Network and Internet Connections. Click on Network Connections. There should be a local area connection. Double-click on it. Click on Support tab at the top. Write down your default gateway (x.x.x.x). Try typing that number in your browser window. It should prompt for username/password.
 
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KenM said:
I had my desktop run the network at my house, had a wireless router. A month ago my hard drive crashed and my desktop. I don't have the money to replace the hard drive yet. I plugged my laptop into the router and I can get online. But I was wondering if there is any way I can get into my router controls from my laptop to open up some ports for some games I like to play and my Xbox live?

Try this website...it's been a help to me in the past with my router and games...
http://www.portforward.com/
 

ssampier said:
To find your default gateway, click on Start, Control Panel, Network and Internet Connections. Click on Network Connections. There should be a local area connection. Double-click on it. Click on Support tab at the top. Right down your default gateway (x.x.x.x). Try typing that number in your browser window. It should prompt for username/password.

That's a good suggestion. :)

In my Start menu it's under Start > Settings > Network Connections > Local Area Connection, though.

You can also reach it by right-clicking on My Network Places (Win XP) and selecting Properties, then double-clicking the one labled as Local Area Connection. Then Support tab and so on...

Bye
Thanee
 

Thanee said:
In my Start menu it's under Start > Settings > Network Connections > Local Area Connection, though.

You can also reach it by right-clicking on My Network Places (Win XP) and selecting Properties, then double-clicking the one labled as Local Area Connection. Then Support tab and so on...

And the easy way to see what your default gateway is without jumping through screen after screen (applies to Windows NT, 2000, XP, etc) ....

-- Go to Start and then Run
-- Type cmd
-- Then click OK
-- type ipconfig
-- hit enter
-- Look for the line that says 'Default Gateway'
 

IronWolf said:
And the easy way to see what your default gateway is without jumping through screen after screen (applies to Windows NT, 2000, XP, etc) ....

-- Go to Start and then Run
-- Type cmd
-- Then click OK
-- type ipconfig
-- hit enter
-- Look for the line that says 'Default Gateway'

I was waiting for someone to post that. In my experience though, some people get lost on that screen (since it lists 13 different things). I prefer the GUI screen (which Windows 2000 lacks).

Very good.
 

Thanee said:
That's a good suggestion. :)

In my Start menu it's under Start > Settings > Network Connections > Local Area Connection, though.

You can also reach it by right-clicking on My Network Places (Win XP) and selecting Properties, then double-clicking the one labled as Local Area Connection. Then Support tab and so on...

Bye
Thanee

That's the Windows "classic" mode so it looks like Windows 2000.

In Windows 2000 you don't have this option. You have to use the ipconfig /all trick :)
 

ssampier said:
I was waiting for someone to post that. In my experience though, some people get lost on that screen (since it lists 13 different things). I prefer the GUI screen (which Windows 2000 lacks).

:) Everyone has their preference! Whichever works best for you is certainly the one you should use.

A plain ipconfig seems to only lists 4 things for each interface. You can alway have them type:

Code:
ipconfig | findstr /c:"Default Gateway"

and cut down on what gets returned pretty quickly as well.

When I did phone tech support I nearly always took people straight to the command line. I found it easier to get the information I needed without having to wonder what the heck they just clicked on! I also found people were much less likely to wander off on their own if you had them in the command line - which may or may not be a good thing depending on your patience level...
 

IronWolf said:
:) Everyone has their preference! Whichever works best for you is certainly the one you should use.

When I did phone tech support I nearly always took people straight to the command line. I found it easier to get the information I needed without having to wonder what the heck they just clicked on! I also found people were much less likely to wander off on their own if you had them in the command line - which may or may not be a good thing depending on your patience level...

I had the opposite experience. Everytime they'd have to type something I'd have to repeat it up to 5 times. That's using the phonic alphabet (a for alpha, etc).

I never had people wonder off in the GUI too much with me. Then again, I was supporting the computer-phobic (direct consumers for dialup and DSL Internet). Luckily I don't do that anymore. I support a bigger region now and only for emergencies (can't get into regional router, etc).
 

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