Cannot Access Router Settings - HELP!?

Your router should be at the "Default Gateway" address, found with the "ipconfig/all" command (or network status) If your gateway is 192.168.2.1, then your router is not connected properly if you get to the modem instead. Check the default gateway, connect to it. If in doubt, disconnect the modem from the router and try again.

The fact your wireless password may have changed suggests you do not know how to set up the router with proper security. Get some professional help with your network.... EDIT: if your router is connected by the LAN ports, it is NOT acting as a router, and hence NOT blocking any ports at all - there is no forwarding to do if it is running as a switch! Whoever told you to run it that way did not do you any favors - it is not protecting your home network at all!

Also, you cannot use more than one computer on the internet at the same time if using it as a switch! Normal use is to plug the modem into the WAN/Internet port of the router, then all your computers into the LAN ports. Then you can do your port forwarding.

Right now, it is running as a switch and AP (Access Point). It HAS to have an IP address, to get to it for management. It may be 192.168.2.2, but you would have to have set that.

Otherwise, no one can guess what it is....it may not even be in your same subnet (it could be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1) You cannot get to an address in another subnet if your IP is in another... Belkin should never had suggested what you say they did - it makes no sense for normal home router use. It may be that their router cannot handle the private subnet (192.168.2.1) on WAN side (some routers have that issue, they expect a "real", public routable IP address on the WAN port...).

I thought routers were usually 192.168.1.1.

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