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mitulpatel2003
Novice
Dec 19, 2014
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Router login issues

Hello, So I am having a very frustrating issue logging into my router. I cant seem to login to my router using ip address or routerlogin.net after a certain amount of time. If I reboot my router, I ...
N900
WNDR4500
  • Chuck_s's avatar
    Chuck_s
    Jan 14, 2015
    Hi Andy --

    Hard reset seems to have worked. Thanks!

    For the curious:

    First thing that happened was the router reported searching for another router on the network. Didn't find one and proceeded to reset the router to factory specs.

    Once that came up I restored my previous settings that I had saved while I still had access to the router.

    Still curious what it set itself to last month when I tested my olde 3700 (which, incidentally works fine behind an AT&T router at my other house -- and has a lot more range and SPEED than the AT&T.

    -- Chuck
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Babylon5
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 07, 2015
A computer which has been allocated IP data from the router via DHCP will, as per olsbyg’s example above, have a Gateway IP address, this is the address of the router.

At a Command Prompt (Start, All programs, Accessories, Command Prompt) type ipconfig /all