[access-uk] Re: Accesing Router
- From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:06:45 +0100
Thanks, Steve - but no luck I am afraid.
I keep getting a message "http/1.0 401 Authorization required"
I have just done a Google search for that message and among the results there
are several
refering to Alcatel Speedtouch routers - which happens to be the type I am
using. I will read
some of them later and see if they throw any light on the situation.
It's not vital that I get into this router at present and once I have purchased
something more
sophisticated I will probably discard it anyway. Linksys might be a good
choice since many
people (on and off list) seem familiar with them.
Douglas
On 1 Jul 2008 at 20:59, Steve Nutt wrote:
> Hi Douglas,
>
> If the Router is anything like Linksys routers, leave the user name blank
> and put admin as the password. That should get you in if the router is set
> to default configuration.
>
> All the best
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Douglas Harrison Sent: Tuesday 1 July 2008 20:43 To:
> access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Accesing Router
>
> When I decided recently to move into the broadband era I chose an ISP
> which supplied as part of its package a very simple single port router.
> It
>
> was pre-configured so that I only had to connect it via an ethernet cable
> to
>
> the computer and I was "on line on one of my machines. I felt that this
> approach would enable me to familiarise myself with the basics before
> purchasing a more sophisticated router likely to meet my current (and
> anticipated future) requirements.
>
>
> All appears to be working well, but i have so far been unable to access
> the
>
> router. The ISP advise backing up the configuration by first accessing
> the router with http://192.168.254.254. Doing this I am asked to log in -
> I enter admin as user name and a password provided by the ISP, but can get
> no further. Ultimately I get an "Authorisation required" message.
> Contacting the Tech Support of the ISP the only suggestion I was given was
> to try a browser other than IE7! Not surprisingngly that makess no
> difference.
>
> I am sure that I am doing something stupid, but cannot think what it can
> be.
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I wonder whether my firewall
> might be interfering?
>
>
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Douglas Harrison
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