Cannot log into router/AP setup page.... page times out, but worked fine for weeks?

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Greene420

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Hello all, how's it going? I usually fix my own stuff but have to ask some experts here for this one...

I have a WiFi setup where the wifi signal can go to 2 houses on my long-range property. One wifi router (Motorola WR850G w/ newest firmware update) is up on a pole between 2 of the houses. I could access it fine via wifi on my PC ever since i set it up a while back, but I was messing with it one day last week (nothing major changed), and all of a sudden now I cannot access the router setup page no matter what! (IP=192.168.10.1 by default).... it just simply times out now and gives me the 30 seconds loop to a page not displayed error in my browser.

I really would like to reset it via wifi, since its up powered on the pole outside, it'd be a huge pain to get up there and reset it myself....

is there a way I can get access to the page again in any way, by only using wifi from my PC????

The WiFi works great either way, and pinging to the router is 1ms so I just don't get it! Please help :(

Things I've done:
1. Pinged router, pings fine from any PC via WiFi...
2. Changed PC from DHCP, to 192.168.10.8 to get a non-used IP, since maybe it was timing out to the 192.168.10.7 IP I was using via DHCP. No go, it still times out no matter which PC or IP I have!
 
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Did you change the protocol from http to https by chance, or vise versa ?
 
Did you change the protocol from http to https by chance, or vise versa ?

--- No, I did not. It just stopped working out of nowhere? Is the only option left to fix it a hard reset via the button on the back of the router? Please tell me no lol
 
I've seen web interfaces on boxes like this fail sometimes. You'll have to reset it.

You can't cut the power to the pole?
 
While you are messing with the idea of resetting the router, look into the Tomato firmware for the 850g. I switched because of issues with hanging and disconnects. The router is rock solid now. I have not had to touch the router since configuring it. http://www.polarcloud.com/firmware. The notes do not mention the 850 but if you download and check the readme, WR850.bin is for the Motorola WR850G/GP.
 
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