try 192.168.1.1

<cm.mathieu@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a problem on my house network. I have one XP SP3 desktop
> computer and a Vista Basic laptop. Both have IE7 installed. The two
> computers are connected to a netgear router by cables. On both
> computers, I cannot access my router's configuration page
> (192.168.0.1), I don't even have access to the prompt login of my
> router. I keep getting a HTTP 400 error, but I can navigate anywhere
> on internet without any problems. I tried accessing my router using
> Microsoft Word 2003 Web toolbar on both computers and I got a little
> further. I got the prompt login of my router, but after the user and
> password entered, Word redirect to a IE7 window and then I get a HTTP
> 400 error. On my XP machine, I unistalled IE7 to get back to IE6 and
> try to access my router and it worked fined, I had access to
> everything. I reinstalled IE7 and tried I could not access to my
> router again. This makes me think that the problem is somewhere in
> IE7, because it seems to work with Word 2003, which was probably
> programmed with internet controls of IE5 or 6 since it's development
> date. I alos installed Firefox to try to access my router and it
> worked fine too. But I don't want to use Firefox, I prefer using the
> build in applications to reduce the risk of incompatibility softwares
> and also to reduce the amount of software installed on my machines,
> that does the same things. I have tried disabeling the TCP/IPv6
> protocol to my network connection, tried adding my router address to
> internet and intranet authorized sites, tried deactivated the fishing
> filter, nothing worked.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Sorry for the mistakes, I'm a french speaking person.
>
> Charles