thank you for all the help so far, let me be a lil more specific with my problem. THe whole reason i'm trying to access my routers control panel or whatever it is, is to change the dmz host for online gaming, whenever a computer is added or removed from the router it changes the last three numbers of my ip address and i have to relay the change to the dmz host. Now i do know what i changed my subnet mask to, it was only a pull down window of options, plus it tells me in my network conn properties.
Secondly i never changed my ip, just my subnet mask, would that alter my ability to get to my routers control thru my own comp?
Sry that i know absolutely nothing about computers.
Thanks again for all your help