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[Config] Cisco 1801 router - home set up

Apologies if this is a very 'Noddy' post but I'm really struggling to even get stated with setting this.

My issue was that my home network was getting too overloaded - Apple tVs, backup drives, Sonos systems etc etc and it was causing network storms on a daily basis. It was suggested that I should get a more robust router, preferably cisco, and so I bought a cisco 1801.

My very basic problem is that having plugged it in and switched it all on I'm trying to find it on my iMac (which is wired to the router) to set it up and I'm used to finding routers on a 192.168.0.1 address or similar but I can't find anything. I also can't find any sort of set up manual that doesn't require a stronger knowledge of computing - and some sort of screen that has a configuration set up on it.

My knowledge is very limited and so it may be that they just don't work this way but is there a way to get some sort of control page on my iMac or have I just bought the wrong thing?

Any advice welcome - even if it's that I should just send it back and stick to a home router

Thanks

David

The 1801 is not plug and play. It comes with NO configuration whatsoever. It may have a built in GUI so you need to look at step 6 in the quick start guide here: »www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers···qsg.html

I also have the following questions and observations:

1. Home network too overloaded? I install networks in high end houses. Even my small home networks have upwards of 50 devices with internet connectivity from PC's to iPads, smart phones, CCTV systems, BMS systems and everything else you can think of in a house. Many of them use standard ADSL2/2+ internet connections (I'm in the UK) which rarely get above 10 - 12Mb/s. I only ever install gigabit switches which most modern switches are these days. If you have Gigabit ports on your gear then you absolutely do not have any issues with speed internally. A storm is a specific condition caused when a network has a physical loop and no way for the switch side of the network to stop it. I haven't seen a switch that doesn't automatically prevent loops for years, even cheap un-managed ones. What switch do you have? We need to determine if you actually have a broadcast storm or if there is another issue.

2. If you think these storms are causing the internet connection to slow down, you are wrong. The broadcast storm is local and may affect your ability to connect to the internet but if there is no loop on your network then it isn't a broadcast storm. I know that sounds like saying it both is and isn't the "storm" causing issues, but there is a clear distinction between local connectivity and internet connectivity that is subtle, and to a layman almost indistinguishable, but to a network engineer the differences are very important.
It may be that your internet bandwidth may not be enough to download a movie on Apple whilst surfing Youtube and doing emails, but the only options there are to get a faster broadband connection. Which brings me to...

3. How fast is your internet connection? Have you done speed tests at several times of the day to determine what speeds you are actually getting?
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