Need help accessing my router.
Need help accessing my router.
Just purchased a Cat8 cable and changed from Wi-Fi to a wired connection. Everything worked until I attempted to connect my router to a port forward. It felt similar to using Wi-Fi but behaved differently. Trying to reach the default gateway didn’t succeed, and the DHCP server also wasn’t responding. I noticed the IP starts with 221.127. This is the same WiFi card that’s connected while using the Ethernet router (TL-WDR8500). I’m not very familiar with networking, but I’d really appreciate help resolving this. Edited November 8, 2020 by avan_
As @WereCatf said, this is a public IP, not a private one. Meaning the IP of your default gateway is that of your ISP, not that of your modem/router. Which is why you can't access its management interface that way. You can easily verify this by running "whois 221.127.51.211" on your IP address. This reveals the name and location of your ISP. For a private IP it should simply return "IANA" as the owner. The IP of your DHCP server is using a private IP (10.x.x.x), but I suspect this is something internal on your ISP's network, which you can reach through your (or rather their) default gateway. You can try using 192.168.1.1, same as over Wi-Fi. It's possible the router will still listen to it on the LAN interface.