Wireless router question

[WIP]

Got an interesting one here.

Last summer I installed a Linksys wireless N router and it has been working fine. To configure the router's SSID and password I used my Chrome browser and navigated to the IP address of the router. Everything went fine.

Yesterday I tried to navigate to the router's configuration files using IE9. As expected, I was prompted for a username and password. When I entered the name the prompt disappeared but instead of opening the router's web page it prompted me for my username and password again. Thinking I mistyped something I tried again with the same result. I double-checked my records to be sure I was using the right information and tried again with the same results.

Next, I tried logging in to it use Chrome and it worked fine. I suspect that there must be a security setting in my IE9 browser that is preventing me from logging in to my router's web-based configuration. I don't know where to start looking. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

 

[tim-from-pa]

Got an interesting one here.

Last summer I installed a Linksys wireless N router and it has been working fine. To configure the router's SSID and password I used my Chrome browser and navigated to the IP address of the router. Everything went fine.

Yesterday I tried to navigate to the router's configuration files using IE9. As expected, I was prompted for a username and password. When I entered the name the prompt disappeared but instead of opening the router's web page it prompted me for my username and password again. Thinking I mistyped something I tried again with the same result. I double-checked my records to be sure I was using the right information and tried again with the same results.

Next, I tried logging in to it use Chrome and it worked fine. I suspect that there must be a security setting in my IE9 browser that is preventing me from logging in to my router's web-based configuration. I don't know where to start looking. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Yeah, and I don't want to sound mickey mouse, but the problem is spelled
M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T

I found over the years they lost touch and due to their flimsy and virus prone software they have to make security settings so that you don't do something like trying to log onto your router and inadvertently end up getting porn and a wiped-out hard drive.

You will do best by simply staying with another browser like chrome or Firefox which don't have the software attitudes. Even if you manage to use IE, trust me, other idiotic things will eventually occur and it will be an on-going battle.

Microsoft's days are numbered in this house. I have two smaller "computers" using Android and I have Linux live CD which I use when I want to look up something innocent on the web but don't want a virus to go with it every time. When my own personal PC goes bad one day, I will rebuild another computer putting Ubuntu on it. I think Microsoft has been giving people overpriced headaches long enough now and people are wising up and switching OS's.

 

[Free]

Agreed. Stay far away from IE. Use Firefox.

 

[Chris]

Yeah, and I don't want to sound mickey mouse, but the problem is spelled
M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T

people are wising up and switching OS's.

LOL 10 points +

the soloutions are spelled A-P-P-L-E & L-I-N-U-X

I ditched Micro$oft for OSX a year a go and its the best thing I ever did so much more simple. I got my wife a macbook so I dont get called in to answer chris whats this missing .dll file, and whats this virus scan thingy do etc etc. The mac is just blessed peace from computer issues, that I have to fix.

 

[tim-from-pa]

LOL 10 points +

the soloutions are spelled A-P-P-L-E & L-I-N-U-X

I ditched Micro$oft for OSX a year a go and its the best thing I ever did so much more simple. I got my wife a macbook so I dont get called in to answer chris whats this missing .dll file, and whats this virus scan thingy do etc etc. The mac is just blessed peace from computer issues, that I have to fix.

My older brother-in-law used to forward emails to everyone, you know the type? And in them were often viruses and my sister-in-law got tired of watching over him like a kid and having the computer messed up all the time. So, she got him the mac laptop and the problems instantly stopped as he hasn't had a problem for years. It shows it CAN be done. Back in the days Micro-freakin'-soft had the monopoly on this they gave all sorts or reasons why it "couldn't" be done and in the early computer days had us all bamboozled into believing a virus was a fact of life. I've been saying for years that this was not true, but geeks would chew me up one side and down the other why what I said was dumb. Well, the days came and I'm vindicated. The whole issue with Microsoft is their OS philosophy involving permissions (root directories) and common files. But will they change? No. To do so would admit they were wrong. They are like politicians that never get the message.

 

[Theofilus]

The whole issue with Microsoft is their OS philosophy involving permissions (root directories) and common files. But will they change? No. To do so would admit they were wrong. They are like politicians that never get the message.

Actually, that's not the reason. Microsoft used to make a version of Unix, which they called Xenix. They lost interest in it, though, when IBM got them to develop OS2 for them. They sold Xenix to SCO, and part of the deal was that Microsoft would never make a Unix-like OS again. Since they're not allowed to make a Unix-like system, they base any future Windows version on Unix.

 

[tim-from-pa]

Actually, that's not the reason. Microsoft used to make a version of Unix, which they called Xenix. They lost interest in it, though, when IBM got them to develop OS2 for them. They sold Xenix to SCO, and part of the deal was that Microsoft would never make a Unix-like OS again. Since they're not allowed to make a Unix-like system, they base any future Windows version on Unix.

Thanks for the history lesson. I did not know that. That's a shame because I understand that Mac, Android, Linux are similar structure. So if Microsoft took that path and is not allowed to make a similar OS (I'm not sure why the others can), then they have to come up with yet another method to run an OS. But clearly, what they have now has much to be desired --- maybe for gaming they are good, but a 52-year-old like me can care less.

 

[Vic C.]

Hey Theo, I use to work on, and with, OS2. :shocked! When I first started my latest job, we had OS2/Novell as our network platform.

What a hassle! :o

 

[Theofilus]

Hey Theo, I use to work on, and with, OS2. :shocked! When I first started my latest job, we had OS2/Novell as our network platform.

What a hassle! :o

I've never used OS2, but I have used Novell. In many ways, I liked it better than working with Active Directory.