Asic blade erupter connection problems

[7thjester]

i am new to mining, and i got a blade erupter as my first miner last week. i pulled the power supply out of an old computer and hooked up the power to the green connector. i plugged the ethernet cable into my router and the port lights on the erupter are working but i can not connect to the configuration page "192.168.1.254:8000". i have i have tried plugging it directly into my computer but that does not work either, my computer sees it as a network with imporper ip setup. i have read that you can use your computer directly if you configure your ethernet port to use a static ip adress is this a fix to my problem. i know im a noob in this field and i appreciate any response i get, i have been trying to fix this for days and cant find anything.

for my setup i followed
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205369.0

wireless router belkin n450 db
power supply hipro hp d2537f3r
miner Asic blade erupter v2

[pontiacg5]

If your home network is not on a 192.168.1.x subnet you won't be able to access the miner.

The quickest way is probably typing "ipconfig /all" into a command prompt. You should be able to see the default gateway and your PC's IP then, and it should be 192.168.1.x. If not you will need to log onto your routers web interface and change to a 192.168.1.x IP instead of 192.168.0.1 or 10.1.1.x or whatever it might be.

After you do that you should be able to access the config page.

You should probably set a static IP address on your computer anyway, but I'd do this after changing the router settings. I'm sure it is possible to plug the blade directly into your PC's Ethernet port and change settings that way (which means you could change the blade's IP address to match your routers subnet mask,) but there are a lot more variables that way and it's really not necessary (you may need a crossover cable, for one.)