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"routerlogin.net" keeps saying I must be connected to my router's WiFi, even though I am
I was having connectivity issues with my Verizon Fios router. They sent out a technician and the problem was fixed. After my netgear wifi router was reset, I attempted to go to "www.routerlogin.com" ...
- There was a white cable running from the FIOS to the NetGear. It's showed in the old pictures. The new pictures is how it's currently configured and it's worked like a dream since the removal of the white cable.
So to anyone with the same issues as mine, check your cables and make sure there aren't extras. All that's needed is the Ethernet cable connecting the FIOS router to the NetGear and the plug in from the NetGear to the outlet. Make sure you reset when removing a stray, unnecessary cable. It worked for me.
Now it makes sense from what I found on youtube the modem/router is 192.168.1.1 address and no wonder the netgear never saw the normal address that one would use to log in to it. The new address ip address of the netgear was never shown in the youtube videos that I found on youtube.
William10a wrote:
Now it makes sense from what I found on youtube the modem/router is 192.168.1.1 address
It's not really a modem, it's a router that has a gigabit ethernet WAN connection plus a coax connection. The coax and gigabit are bridged, and IP services are provided to the coax TV devices by the router.
There's more than one router that they use (my current one is a FiOS-G1100). They do default to the 192.168.1.x address space, and the coax devices start at 192.168.1.100.
Todays modems are really gateways the term modem is from the dailup days of bbs's and online when made a phone and called the computer system you were interested connecting with using audio tones over yoyr phone line the fastest speed was around 56k if lucky and the line was clear and DOS ruled the IBM and its clones yes windows 3.1 a dos shell with a gui (graphic users inferface). Even before the hard drive became standard on a computer you used your basic oraperting system to load the program you wanted to run.
William10a wrote:
Todays modems are really gateways...
I agree- the formal definition is "A gateway is a network node connecting two networks that use different protocols". What we call "modem" here fits that definition.
But it's common in home networking to limit "gateway" to "modems+routers", and Netgear's product literature all follows that convention.