192.168.1.1 Login successfully and jump back to the login box? I turned off this browser setting to stop crashing

Last week, my neighbor knocked on my door at around nine o'clock in the evening and said that the background of his router could not be accessed. I went over to see, he lost 192.168.1.1 , the management password was copied from the label on the bottom of the router, and it was obviously correct. When I logged in, the page seemed to flash for a moment, and then returned to the login box. He tried four times in a row, and on the fifth time, "Too many attempts" popped up. I asked him not to click on it yet, and when I took my phone to look, I saw that the WiFi was working, I could watch TV, and the network was not disconnected at all.

I struggled with this matter for almost an hour, and you may not believe it when the real murderer finally revealed it.: It wasn't that the router was broken or that the password had been changed. It was because he had turned on "Block All Cookies" in his browser. After successfully logging in, the router couldn't save the login status and immediately kicked him back to the door. Write down this troubleshooting sequence clearly today. Next time you encounter the weird situation of "jumping back to the login box after logging in successfully", follow these four steps and you won't need to touch reset in most cases.

First, separate "can't get in" and "get in and get kicked out"

When many people encounter a login page that jumps repeatedly, their first reaction is that the password is wrong or the router has been hacked. My neighbor is like this. The more he loses, the more anxious he becomes. The more anxious he becomes, the more locked he becomes. In fact, these two things have completely different manifestations. Only by distinguishing them can we treat the symptoms.

If the router keeps prompting "Incorrect password" or "Incorrect username or password", then the password itself is incorrect, or you have confused the management password and the WiFi password. These two things are two different things. The management password is 192.168.1.1 It is used in the background. The WiFi password is used by the mobile phone to connect to the wireless network. Don't use the latter to fill in the former.

If you enter the correct password, the page will flash briefly and it will appear that you are about to enter, but you will immediately return to the login box. ； Or you have entered the backend, clicked one or two menus, and were kicked back to the login page. This is basically not about the password. If you can enter the login box and pass the password verification, it means that the network and backend address are connected. The problem most likely lies in "the login status is not retained." I call it entering the door and being ejected again, which is two diseases, and being unable to even open the door.

This distinction is important because the medicines are different. The door cannot be opened. I have to check whether the gateway, network cable, and login address are entered correctly. That article on the site 192.168.1.1 The login page has a white screen, slow loading, and keeps spinning in circles. It’s about a type of situation ； After entering the door and being ejected again, these are the four types I will talk about below. Don't reset both of them as soon as you start up. Factory reset is the last step.

first step: Open an incognito window and try again. You can probably tell the difference on the spot.

My first action that day was to ask him to open an incognito window. The shortcut keys for Chrome and Edge on computers are Ctrl+Shift+N, and mobile browsers also have "incognito mode" or "privacy window." Type again in an incognito window 192.168.1.1 , enter the same management password, submit it, enter, and click a few menus but nothing pops up again.

This is basically locked: It's not a router problem, it's an old state stored in the browser, or an extension installed that's causing trouble. Later, I turned off Incognito, returned to the normal window, turned off "Block all cookies" in his browser settings, cleared the cache again, and the normal window was stable.

There is a detail I want to clarify here. Incognito mode is not "not saving any cookies". It saves cookies until the window is closed and then deletes them. A short session such as logging in to the router is enough. What can really mess up your login is if you actively check "Block all cookies" or "Do not allow websites to save data" in your browser settings. The router's backend login relies on this small piece of cookie to remember that you have passed the verification. If the cookie cannot be saved, the server will think you are new every time and will naturally kick you back to the login page.

So the checking sequence under the normal window is as follows: First go to the settings to find the Cookie related options and turn off "Block all cookies" and "Do not allow websites to save data" ； Clear the cache of the current site again ； Conveniently install the ad blocking plug-in 192.168.1.1 Deactivate this page. My neighbor installed a plug-in that blocks pop-up windows and blocks background scripts. When these two problems are combined, the login page looks more like a "ghost hitting the wall". After making the changes, open a normal window and try again, and it usually passes.

Step 2: Check to see if the router dates back to 1970

If you can't enter the incognito window, or you are kicked out after a few seconds of entering, the second thing to check is the router system time. I have encountered this pitfall on my own TP-Link TL-WDR7660.: One day, after a power outage, the call came back again. The router date was January 1, 1970. I logged in to the backend, and the password was correct. I entered a menu and returned to the login box, repeated several times.

The reason is simple. The login status has an expiration time. The server determines whether your login has timed out based on the time recorded by itself. The router's time is wrong. One second it may send you a voucher "valid for ten minutes", and the next second it may think that the time has passed decades and the voucher should be invalidated long ago, so it kicks you out. The performance is that you will be kicked out soon after entering, which is different from the browser cookie type, which cannot even be saved without trace.

The location of the search is called differently by each company. It is commonly found in "System Management", "System Settings" and "Time Settings". The old backend of TP-Link is generally called "System Tools-Time Settings", and it is also available in "Advanced Settings" for Xiaomi and Redmi. When entering, first check whether the current time is consistent with the mobile phone, especially the year. As long as it starts in 1970 or 2000, the time is not synchronized. Find the NTP server column and fill in the commonly used address, such as ntp.aliyun.com or time.apple.com , synchronize manually again, save and power off the router and restart it. After the time stabilizes, the problem of logging in will usually disappear.

Resetting the router time to zero will also affect the scheduled restart and scheduled network disconnection functions. It is also responsible for not executing them in the middle of the night. How to adjust the router time if it is wrong I have written that article before, so I won’t go into it here. You just need to remember: Log in and log out immediately. Take a look at the background time first.

Step 3: The machine is stuck. It is more effective to cut off the power and restart it than to keep clicking.

The third step is the turn of the router itself. I have seen a Mercury D191G. It has been used for almost two years and has not been turned off. I log in in the background and after two turns, it pops back to the login box. I checked the time and it was correct. I also changed the browser. Finally, I unplugged the power cord and waited ten seconds before plugging it back in. It was fine.

The memory of home routers is not large, ranging from tens to hundreds of megabytes. If it is left on for a long time, more and more processes will accumulate. When the memory is full, the process responsible for processing background logins will be easily killed by the system or restarted by itself. You have just logged in successfully and the session has just been established. As soon as the process is restarted, the status is gone and the page naturally returns to the login box. This is not broken, but the machine is tired.

The order of power outage and restart is a bit particular. Unplug the power supply first, wait 10 to 15 seconds, and don't plug it back in for a second to allow the motherboard capacitors to discharge and the memory to be completely cleared. Plug it in again, wait until the indicator light is normal and WiFi can be connected, then enter 192.168.1.1 . Most of the time this will break the login loop. If the router often behaves like this and needs to be restarted every few days, then you need to consider whether it is time to change to a machine with larger memory, or to configure a scheduled restart for it. But that’s a story later. Let’s try restarting it now, which is the lowest cost.

One more thing to emphasize here: Powering off and restarting is not a factory reset. Restarting is just a reboot. Your WiFi name, management password, and broadband dial-up settings are all still there. ； Factory reset clears everything and forces you to set it up from scratch. I am here for these two Are router restarts and resets the same thing? It has been disassembled inside, so don’t confuse it before starting, especially don’t mistake the reset hole for the reset button.

Step 4: Change the browser and figure out the management of passwords.

Tried the first three steps but still failed, so change the browser in the fourth step. I can’t change Chrome to Edge on my computer, and I can’t change Firefox anymore. ； The same goes for mobile phones. If you can’t access it through the built-in browser, try another browser. My neighbor ended up having problems with plug-ins and cookies. He should have discovered it long ago when he changed browsers, but he was stuck in the same browser.

There is a very easy mistake to make when changing browsers.: The browser remembered the old administrative password, and the one that was automatically filled in was actually wrong. You may think you entered a new password, but in fact the browser filled in the old one for you. This is most common after changing the management password. First clear the auto-fill in the password box, enter a new one manually, and then log in. How to change the management password and how to prevent the browser from filling in the wrong information after changing it? How to change router management password That article explains it in detail. Just follow it and it will become clear.

There is also a small bug on the mobile phone, which my neighbor encountered again the second night.: His mobile phone is connected to 2.4G WiFi, and his computer is connected to 5G WiFi. They are actually under the same router, but his mobile browser keeps spinning. Later, I found out that the mobile phone automatically connected to the router's guest network. The guest network isolates the background management by default, so the login page is always weird. This is not exactly the same as the login jump, but it is worth taking a look when troubleshooting to see if you are connected to the main network.

Follow the order and don’t reset as soon as you start.

I compiled the four situations and the corresponding actions into a small table. If I encounter them, I can read them so that I won’t panic easily.

Looking back, my neighbor's machine was not broken from beginning to end, and the password was correct. It was just two small settings that got us both in trouble. meet again later 192.168.1.1 After successfully logging in, you will be redirected to the login box. Don’t rush to reset. First go through the four steps of incognito window, system time, power off and restart, and change browser. If you really want to go to the factory reset step, you should first check whether the broadband account password is still there, otherwise the door will be opened and you will not be able to access the Internet.