Belkin Pre-N router weirdness

We were trying to connect another PC to our network the other day but
without any joy (cable connection).

After a bit, I emembered that I had MAC filtering set up in my router/modem
so I went through the web interface to the MAC filtering section.

Every time I tried to access that section the browser would freeze and after
that, I couldn't access any other parts of the router set-up.

If I went to any other section first, I could access those parts with no
trouble. Each time I had to reset the router (a soft reset) to restore
access to the router. During all this, Internet access was unaffected, it
was just the router that I couldn't access.

After faffing around for ages, I took the plunge and did a hard reset.
After the reset, I restored my setting that I'd backed up only to find that
nothing had changed. :-(

Any suggestions what to try next? A hard reset *without* restoring my old
settings just in case they're corrupted somehow?

Tim

Tim Downie wrote:

> Any suggestions what to try next? A hard reset *without* restoring
> my old settings just in case they're corrupted somehow?

Decided to try that and that did the trick.

Tim