firewall-connection problems

[birdy]

Originally Posted by brittski8

I think I'm about ready to pull my hair out.

My brother does use LW, but our ports are different (of course. That would only make it easy!) So I started to go through that process of changing/making a Static IP address, etc....I got to the part where I had to log into my router's interface. I hadn't created an account yet or registered my product (oops) so I just did it...and now that it's all registered, there is NO page anywhere that gives my router's status!! How can that be? I tried typing in keywords too and nothing! When I click on my registered product, it just brings me to a place where I can get downloads for my model type. I can't find anything in my account profile either! I'm stuck without that step! (Where I'm supposed to find the Linksys DNS numbers and compare them to the ones I recovered from my comp.) This is SO FRUSTRATING!! (I don't mean that negatively towards you...you're being a huge help!)

Did you get the static IP set up ok? Make sure that's all done before you go on & log into your router.

You don't need to be on the Linksys site (I'm guessing that's where you went to register your product) to log into your router. You just need to open whatever browser you use (IE, Firefox etc) & then type in the default IP address for your router (in your case that's 192.168.1.1 - same as mine in the screenshot below). Click on the thumbnail to see a screenshot.


Once you type that IP address into your browser & hit 'enter'...you'll come see a screen asking you to type in a username & password. Just use the default username & password (as in the port forward instructions) unless you've created your own username & password. When you enter the username & password, you'll be able to log into your router & there's where you'll be able to set up your port forwarding