Can't get to Base Station Management Tool

I just switched from Sprint to a cable modem and now
nothing is working right. My cable modem appears ready,
but it can't negotiate a connection. I think it has
something to do with switching from a static IP address
to a dynamic one, but I can't even get my Base Station
Management Tool to open to check that out. The option
is "grayed out"

Any suggestions?

PS, I am a novice at all of this.

Hi,

Try going to the Base Station Management tool from Internet Explorer.
Open up Internet Explorer and in the address part type in http://192.168.2.1
then hit enter.



--
Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"Carolyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0a4201c3fafe$df327910$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I just switched from Sprint to a cable modem and now
> nothing is working right. My cable modem appears ready,
> but it can't negotiate a connection. I think it has
> something to do with switching from a static IP address
> to a dynamic one, but I can't even get my Base Station
> Management Tool to open to check that out. The option
> is "grayed out"
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> PS, I am a novice at all of this.

Thanks Gary, I was up most of night trying to config base
station MN500 which I just purchased. The config utility
kept giving me the message that it couldn't complete the
config because of a firewall or antivirus software which
I removed and still got the message. If your method
hadn't worked it was return the router to the store. I
used your suggestion of accessing via IE and it worked
like a charm. many thanks again, now I'll keep this least
costly router.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Try going to the Base Station Management tool from
Internet Explorer.
>Open up Internet Explorer and in the address part type
in http://192.168.2.1
>then hit enter.
>
>
>
>--
>Gary Tsang
>Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
>http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
>
>
>"Carolyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:0a4201c3fafe$df327910$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I just switched from Sprint to a cable modem and now
>> nothing is working right. My cable modem appears
ready,
>> but it can't negotiate a connection. I think it has
>> something to do with switching from a static IP address
>> to a dynamic one, but I can't even get my Base Station
>> Management Tool to open to check that out. The option
>> is "grayed out"
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> PS, I am a novice at all of this.
>
>
>.
>