Can an ISP disable modem configuration?

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OldDuke said:
Why ask here? What you ISP can do to your modem has absolutely
NOTHING to do with the XP OS and as such the question is out of place
HERE.

Ask elsewhere
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OldDuke (aka Farad'n) is our resident mentally ill ****wit.

You hardware question is entirely welcome in a *hardware newsgroup. You
will have noticed that our more helpful residents have answered your point.
 
Mikey said:
Have a Versatek ver170p modem. It works fine. I bought it from my ISP
last year when I signed up with them for high speed internet service.
According to the instructions that came with the modem (and on
Versatek's website) I should be able to configure the modem by entering
http://192.168.1.1 in a browser, but when I do this in Internet Explorer
I get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". In Firefox it
shows "The connection has timed out". When I "ping" it, everything is
okay. Have tried this with my firewall off, same thing. I've never
been able to get into the configuration menu of the modem, when I first
got the modem I tried and couldn't but didn't worry about it because the
modem worked. Yesterday thought I'd try again to get to the
configuration menu but got the same thing that I got last year.
I know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and I don't intend to fool
around with any of the configuration settings, but it bugs me that I
can't get to the configuration settings.
I'm presuming that my ISP configured the modem to whatever configuration
it needed to connect to them, but could they also have configured it so
that trying to configure it through a browser and http://192.168.1.1
wouldn't work, to prevent anyone from changing the settings?
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Thanks to everyone who tried to help.
I did discover that if I keep refreshing the browser while try to get to
192.168.1.1 I'll eventually get into the modem's configuration. It might
take
5 tries, it might take 20, but eventually I'll get through. Kind of weird.
 
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