Reconfigure linksys router

[lpolke]

bought a home 3 weeks ago where there was already a linkysys router ewhen got internet hooked up they did using that already exsisting router. internet been workinhg fine till yesterday modem thru cable working good and right lights on linksys router working. but cant connect to the internet. called linksys and said warranty up on this router and they want me to pay for continued phone supopoert for 30-50 dollars really. is thjere a way i can reconfigure router for free.

 

[Saga Lout]

Hello and welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums.

Use the cable that should have come with your Linksys router to connect to your computer then go Start then Run in XP - or use the Windows key plus R in Vista and Windows 7, then type in the following into the Open box, including all the spaces:-

cmd /k ipconfig /all

then press Enter and from the black form that shows up, take a note of the numeric code beside the Default Gateway icon - something like 192.168.0.1.

Type exit to close the black form.

Open Internet Explorer and enter that code into the URL address bar as though it was a website. You're then at the login page to the router's settings utility and admin will usually be the login with either admin or password as the password but your router's instruction manual will help you there.

If you're in, seek out Wireless and then Security and take a note of the key. Sometimes it may be a passphrase, some a simple set of letters and others a hexadecimal code. You also may as well note which level of security it is - WEP, WPA or WPA/PSK 2 and then either AES or TKIP. Your computer will already know this but it's handy information to store. Note also that hexadecimal only contains numbers from zero to 9 and letters a to f so there's no confusion of I and O with 1 and 0.

It's adviseable to keep a note of that security key in your Documents folder and also outside the computer.