On Friday 06 November 2009 18:51:42 ted wrote:

So here is the info for anyone else who had my problem connecting to Verizon for the first time. (I write this for the archives)

The Westell 6100G modem default IP admin and password: 192.168.1.1 admin password

To access the internet and set up your account you have to go to:

http://192.168.1.1/verizon/redirect.htm

"Hidden Redirect Page"

You click the disable button, and then your on the internet.

indeed. i vaguely recall the modem setting up some redirect hacks such that people plugging in the modem for the first time would get redirected to the internal modem web page for all web sites. but it only really worked on the computer that was directly plugged into the modem, and for Windows users, and for the IE browser. luckily for me ive seen this kind of crap before (hotels' "automatic" network setups) so i could guess at the internal web pages rather than having to slug through another verizon tech call. hopefully your post saves someone else the verizon tech call too :) -mike