Help - Can't access forum from Sky Broadband (Forbidden 404 error)

[BigBrand]

Since I moved from PLusnet to Sky, I can't get on DF anymore without using a proxy.I fucked off the Sky Router and am using my own oneAny idea how I get can it to work with this forum?Cheers

[koola2]

Works fine on my sky connection, using a BT Homehub and the tunlr DNS (but work with openDNS as well)

[Nibb]

How did you feck off the Sky Router m8?

Ive tried to get my pass in the past but cant seem to get it to work?

[prezzy]

How did you feck off the Sky Router m8?

Ive tried to get my pass in the past but cant seem to get it to work?

I have never used my sky router always had and used a draytek

Was a while ago but I think I used this site it seems to flag up some warnings atm but worked fine for me

[ant3b]

Yeah I'm using bipac 7800n with sky I'll dig the site out!

[Over Carl]

How did you feck off the Sky Router m8?

Ive tried to get my pass in the past but cant seem to get it to work?

That site went down for a bit and was meant to come back up but never did. This version does the trick for the Netgear v1 & v2 + the Sagem 2504, 2304n & 2504n, but I found it didn;t work in IE but was fine in FF.

[mc.dodd]

https://www.cm9.net/skypass/

worked for me

[BigBrand]

yup that's the one I used. should I be changing my dns here?

[evilsatan]

I use the CM9 site but had to use another method for the Sky D-Link router. Will try to find the link.

[Goldberg]

I have the same issue at the inlaws. Cannot get in DF through their Sky router.
I thought it might have been an IP issue??

[Over Carl]

When you have problems accessing sites it may be worth checking your router ip address, then rebootings and checking the address again and whether it works.

What I was finding was when I got a 2.*.*.* ip address, I had problems with a handful of websites - good example was fonality.com.

However this may not be the issue as I'm sure I could access df even when I had a 2.*.*.* address.

The only reason I can think of 2.x.x.x being a problem is that those addresses were in bogon lists until just a few years ago.

[BigBrand]

Cheers might sound stupid, but how do I find my routers IP address? I can access the 192.168.1.1 admin settings.

[Over Carl]

yup that's the one I used. should I be changing my dns here?

For a quick test, you might as well do it just on your pc first - open up control panel, network, click properties of your network adaptor, edit tcpipv4 properties and specify your preferred dns servers.

I like opendns - 208.67.220.220 / 208.67.222.222, level 3 are ok, 4.2.2.1 / 4.2.2.2 / 4.2.2.3, google should be ok but I just don't trust them: 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4.

[Over Carl]

Cheers might sound stupid, but how do I find my routers IP address? I can access the 192.168.1.1 admin settings.

Sky routers are normally 192.168.0.1, username : admin, password: sky. If the password is wrong, try username: sky, password: password.

If it doesn't even give you a login prompt, open a dos window (start, run, cmd), then type ipconfig /all

Then in the piles of data that stream past, look for the name of your network adaptor in use, then look at the values for default gateway or dhcp server - these both should be your router's ip address.

If you really have no joy, download a copy of solarwinds ip address tracker (free) and scan your network for unknown devices and try them.

If all else fails, you might as well factory restore your router using a pin in the hole unless you have a complicated router config that would take ages to restore.

[BigBrand]

Strangely enough, I've come home today and it works, without me changing any settings. Fucking weird shit man

[chizh]

Same lack of access for me at home on Sky. I assumed for no particular reason that DF had been blocked/taken down. No idea why I came to that conclusion tho'.

I can only access DF thru' work or my T-Mob phone connection.
2504n router but I must be on an MER exchange/connection as editing the config file doesn't work for me and the router never completes the BB sync if I edit the config file.


Tried Google, OpenDNS and tunlr DNS addresses in network connections (XP) tab with no luck.

[raelmadrid]

do a trace and find out where its being blocked

[BigBrand]

Started happening again last week, so again tried fiddling with DNS details to no avail, rebooted the router remotely a few times and then all of a sudden it works again.

How do we do this trace you speak of RM?

[DJ OD]

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DJ OD

[raelmadrid]

Started happening again last week, so again tried fiddling with DNS details to no avail, rebooted the router remotely a few times and then all of a sudden it works again.

How do we do this trace you speak of RM?

open a command line

tracert www.digital-forums.com

then the last hop before it times out is the device thats stopping you

heres a successful trace: