IE 11 and ability to get at sky router stats

I'll give turning off the anti-virus another shot.. Thanks -Al

Thanks for these, none I'm afraid made any difference.. proxy is unchecked, removing ipv6 no change and the router is not specifically shown in network connection.

Al

I turned off MS essentials but still no joy I'm afraid.

Al

I recall a thread where the AV was uninstalled...
...then IE was reverted all the way back to IE8
...then IE11 was installed while there was no AV installed.

It might not be worth attempting, but again - running short of ideas.

This is getting to be fun! I decided to do a clean install of W7, I wanted to update to 64bit anyway.
Guess what...no change...aghhhhhhhhhh.

Now completlel out of ideas. I felt sure a clean install would fix it.....

Happy new year ..Al

I feel for you mate. Reinstalling the OS is a drastic and long winded undertaking. To be met with the same issue is dis-heartening. Clearly internet explorer 11 does not like something in one of your essential hardware drivers or setup on this specific computer. But trying to problem solve is like looking for a needle in a haystack. As much as I love computers I hate these sorts of issues. Especially when so called 'upgrades' create them and break functionality. A lot of people swear blind by IE10 and IE11 but I have my own frustrations with them and wish IE9 was the latest browser. This functioned fine. The pace of change is too much, too many changes/updates breaking stuff which wasn't broken and it is pretty sad. Unfortunately IE9 will soon fall off the pace as sites begin to optimise and only support latest versions despite the bugs. You are compelled to move to IE11. I have even lost faith with adobe and flash with their constant updates and performance issues!

Sadly I expect updates to work better and receive more thorough QA testing but they don't. I wish I had more time to wrestle with the issues but my wife says she is gonna divorce me if I spend much more time with the computer. A computer I seem to spend more time sweating on and looking into bugs than I do actually enjoying the thing!

I hope you do eventually get to the bottom of this. Blame IE11 and Microsoft for tinkering with sonething that once worked so well!

Thanks for this. It is quite a pain, although not a massive one, as I can view the router through my other PC and via my ipad or iphone... I just would like to understand it.

If I ping the router from the affected PC it comes back with no issues. Typing 192.168.0.1 on my browser just gets a spinning wheel and eventual timeout.. no error codes are given...

I log it here if I find a solution.

Thanks again.

or even " I'll log it here "

The answer appears.... I just hope no one suggested this and I missed it!
I knew it would be something silly..!
I went to internet options, connections, Lan settings and unchecked the 'automatically detect settings' and that was it..arghhhh!
not sure if it will affect anything else... trial and error I suppose.
Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions and has followed this thread.. it seems to have been going on forever.
Al