Hi.
In my university apartment in Madison we've got a Linksys router E2500 directly connected to the wall with the university's internet provider ResTech. The thing is, for reasons that we don't know, the wifi is not private, i.e. it has no password, you just generate your own password through a web registration interface provided by ResTech when you first connect with a device, and therefore everyone can access it.
To be able to set a password I thought I would just need to access the router's webpage through the router ip address and work from there, but it weirdly looks like it's "impossible" to get to that homepage.
Whenever I try to access the router's ip address (checking the Default Gateway with ipconfig/all, which, by the way, isn't the usual 192.168.1.1, it's just a weird one and different for every computer), I just get redirected to the previously mentioned WiFi register webpage from ResTech (already tried it from multiple computers). For me it looks like the default router's homepage has been changed to that one, and I really don't know how to troubleshoot that. I already tried resetting the router as it's explained in Linksys webpage, and through the router setup CD, but nothing is working (first thing simply won't reset the router as they claim it should, and second one will crash in the middle of the operation because of some HTTP error...).
Does anybody have experience with this kind of situation or has any recommendation about how to get to the usual router homepage?
Thanks.
In my university apartment in Madison we've got a Linksys router E2500 directly connected to the wall with the university's internet provider ResTech. The thing is, for reasons that we don't know, the wifi is not private, i.e. it has no password, you just generate your own password through a web registration interface provided by ResTech when you first connect with a device, and therefore everyone can access it.
To be able to set a password I thought I would just need to access the router's webpage through the router ip address and work from there, but it weirdly looks like it's "impossible" to get to that homepage.
Whenever I try to access the router's ip address (checking the Default Gateway with ipconfig/all, which, by the way, isn't the usual 192.168.1.1, it's just a weird one and different for every computer), I just get redirected to the previously mentioned WiFi register webpage from ResTech (already tried it from multiple computers). For me it looks like the default router's homepage has been changed to that one, and I really don't know how to troubleshoot that. I already tried resetting the router as it's explained in Linksys webpage, and through the router setup CD, but nothing is working (first thing simply won't reset the router as they claim it should, and second one will crash in the middle of the operation because of some HTTP error...).
Does anybody have experience with this kind of situation or has any recommendation about how to get to the usual router homepage?
Thanks.
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