Okay, I understand the Cogent/Level 3 blowup... but this?

Factual Questions
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I wasn’t able to access Weather Underground, Drudge Report, and quite a few other sites for a while. Fine.

However, going to 192.168.1.1 gave me the exact same behavior (blank page no matter how hard I tried). That blew my mind. Was it simply coincidence? All the times that my router crashed, I got a popup window saying “192.168.1.1 could not be found” or equivalent thereof… never a simple blank page; but then again, this is a new router.

A modem/router restart late this night fixed everything, though the Cogent pages are still quite slow.

I run a cheapo Linksys 802.11g wireless router.

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I have no idea what caused the problem you describe other than the router just stopped accepting/processing packets*.

Anyway, the part I quoted had me laughing as I pictured someone sitting, an intense look on their face, clicking the mouse madly while chanting ‘YOU CAN DO IT!’.

Slee

*I don’t know jack about routers.

3

192.168.1.1 is almost certainly your router acting as a gateway. You do understand that, right? But can you explain “the Cogent/Level 3 blowup?”

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Link

5

You sure that’s the IP of your router? Sometimes it can be 192.168.0.1 or 2.1 or other things. Check your gateway IP.

6

checks yup, 192.168.1.1 was the IP of my router. I was able to access a bunch of other sites. I guess it was coincidence.

7

… wait a second. www.routerlogin.net is an alias for 192.168.1.1 on my router (although I didn’t type that URL). Maybe that might’ve had something to do with it… oh, well.

8

It was more like this…

clickclickclickclickclickclickCLICK!!! pantpantwheeze thud goes off to nurse bleeding fingers when she regains consciousness

9

Thank you. I had no idea what she was talking about.

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Actually, my point was that it’s not a coincidence. If you can’t access your router which was at 192.168.1.1, you should not be surprised that websites will be inaccessible.