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Windows 10 devices cannot access router settings page (R6250)
So after many hours of troubleshooting (resetting router, reflashing firmware, trying multiple devices) I think I've found out why I get the message "192.168.1.1 refused to connect": Windows 10. All ...
It was public on my laptop. I tried setting it to private and restarting the router. Didn't work. So then tried restarting laptop and router. Didn't work. I didn't have this problem on Windows 10 until recently (until I added the AP, but I think this might just be a coincidence).
I'm upgrading a Windows 7 machine that can access the router fine now to Windows 10 to see whether it can still access it on Windows 10.
Is there, by any chance, an IP address conflict? Perhaps another device is using the same IP address as your router.
I don't think so... How would I check? Surely when I restart the router and connect ONLY my laptop it'd be kind of impossible for IP address conflicts anyway? Or am I talking BS? Lol
Yeah, no real chance for a duplicate address in that situation, unless your laptop is using a static IP that matches the router. :smileytongue:
Technically, when you restart a router, you should force all your devices to renew their DHCP leases. The router loses track of pre-reboot leases, so it can conceivably assign an address to a device when that address is already in use by another device.