How do I prevent the HTTP from showing in address bar?

cligereen

I am trying to connect a laptop to the internet using a socket network. I need to type in voyager.home to the address bar, but it keeps automatically putting the http bit in front. I've tried deleting the http bit but it just keeps re-appearing. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

The really frustrating part is that I've done this loads of times on that laptop and I've never had a problem before :mad:

I know it's probably really simple but I haven't got a clue.

BoB_BoT

pretty sure browsers require you to define the protocol, so unless you put in http https ftp etc... it'll automatically put in the one it detects / defaults to. I don't exactly understand what you're trying to do, so if you could give a bit more info

cianr

Clig-have you tried using another browser?like Firefox instead ofIE?I've used voyager.home in Firefox many times without problem. :-)

cligereen

Bob, what I'm trying to do is to re-establish a dropped connection on the laptop. To do this you need to open internet explorer (which won't connect to the internet due to lost connection) so I need to type voyager.home (voyager being the router) into the address bar. It usually opens up the voyager homepage where you just click connect and away you go.

This time, http keeps coming up in the address bar and I need to get rid of that because if it stays the puter is trying to connect to the internet (and can't) when all I need is to connect to the router connection screen.

CianR, I could try Firefox, but I still don't have a connection on that laptop to download it.

MunsterCycling

Use the IP of the router to connect to it. check your IP settings via cmd > ipconfig /all and note the gateway address IP and that is your modem.

MC

BoB_BoT

lol, oh it's a router haha, sorry never copped that, assumed it was code or a command. have never used voyager routers myself. As MC said, gateway IP will be your router address.

actually on a side note, how does voyager.home work with the router, is it interpreted via the routers dns or is it just something the router is programmed to pick up on. interested now.

MunsterCycling

Smarts' routers have a similar setting but seeing as I don't use the pos they issue I can't remember it. The modem traps a request to dns for this address and replies with its settings page etc

sceptre

MunsterCycling wrote: »

Use the IP of the router to connect to it. check your IP settings via cmd > ipconfig /all and note the gateway address IP and that is your modem.

MC

That'd be my solution. Especially given that it's what I actually do:)

axer

If the router has voyager.home as a static entry in its DNS database then why would it matter about the HTTP being there. Surely it is using that protocol it is using to access the settings page anyway? The only thing I can think of is that it is responding with an IP address address that it not on the same subnet as the computer. Or is this a smart modem rather than a router?

MunsterCycling

If this is a wifi link then you might have lost the connection to the router as it will reply if connected, try pinging the routers IP

MC

cligereen

Well folks, tried everything you suggested and eventually got connected. Not sure which bit worked, tried fiddling with everything and lo and behold there it was! Not even sure I could do it again, but I'll refer back to this thread as required.

Thanks all very much. :pac:

Very grateful.

Overheal

try //voyager.home when I did that instead of trying to find it as a url, firefox just defaulted to a google search after a few seconds.