Need help accessing my router.

[avan_]

Recently bought a Cat8 cable and switched from WiFi to Wired connection.

Everything went well until I try accessing my router to port forward. I thought it would've been like how I access my router with WiFi but seems really different.

I tried accessing with the default gateway didn't work also the DHCP server.

 

No idea why they start with 221.127

 

This is my wifi's one

 

 

WiFi card is also connected while using ethernet

 

Router: TL-WDR8500

I don't know much about networking but would be really grateful if it could be sorted out.

 

 

Edited November 8, 2020 by avan_
forgot minor detail

[WereCatf]

36 minutes ago, avan_ said:

Recently bought a Cat8 cable and switched from WiFi to Wired connection.

Everything went well until I try accessing my router to port forward. I thought it would've been like how I access my router with WiFi but seems really different.

I tried accessing with the default gateway didn't work also the DHCP server.

 

No idea why they start with 221.127

That's not an internal IP-address, that's a public, Internet-facing IP-address. You either plugged the Ethernet-cable into your modem, not your router, or your router is configured to bridge the Ethernet-ports directly to WAN.

[Eigenvektor]

As @WereCatf said, this is a public IP, not a private one. Meaning the IP of your default gateway is that of your ISP, not that of your modem/router. Which is why you can't access its management interface that way. You can easily verify this by running "whois 221.127.51.211" on your IP address. This reveals the name and location of your ISP. For a private IP it should simply return "IANA" as the owner.

 

The IP of your DHCP server is using a private IP (10.x.x.x), but I suspect this is something internal on your ISP's network, which you can reach through your (or rather their) default gateway.

 

You can try using 192.168.1.1, same as over Wi-Fi. It's possible the router will still listen to it on the LAN interface.