Ok so here is what i have done. my home network is on the 192.168.2.0/24 network and i have BT2 bridged via virtual box. i perfomr this command:

nmap -sV -P0 192.168.2.0-255

finds all my interesting stuff along with banner grabbing. So i notice it finds my router and tells me the exact type and what not. Very cool. So i point firefox to the IP provided and it asks for user name and pass. For lab purposes i set user name to admin and a simple password(7 digit number. this might be the problem). I make sure that hydra is set to verbos and that its pointing to the wordlist.txt i set protocol to http-get and set username to admin pointing to target ip of 192.168.2.1. after 15 minutes of waiting this is what appears on my output. even though i grabbed it at 19,441 or so. it was still going at 50,000+ tries.

19487: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19424: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19425: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19426: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19427: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19428: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19429: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19430: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19431: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19432: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19433: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19439: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19440: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting
Process 19441: Can not connect [timeout], process exiting

It never found my password but it sure knocked my internet connection around.

What could be the issue?

thanx for all your time, effort and input you have given  me so far here. I know i ask alot but i hope i can find something to give in return.

Matt

did you set the parameters right? hydra can close the connection before he gets the result, so try to ajust the number of connections and the time it waits for response.

here's some reseach material:

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsecur/article.php/3745276

i quote:
The Tuning tab is used for selecting the number of login attempts that are submitted simultaneously, and this number can be quite critical. Too high and the chances of being detected or locked out of the system are much higher, but too low and it could take days to work through your password list.

Yea be sure to use the right parameters. Especially pay attention to the -t -w and -f parameters. You usually want to use -f to make hydra stop when it gets the password right. If you don't do this I believe it will just keep running and try other passwords.

Though, it seems you're attacking something that doesn't accept connections.

XHydra? Is that the GUI version? Well anyway, it seems you need to be really careful with the number of tasks you let hydra perform. After some googling and actually trying hydra myself on the de-ice disks, I've found that 8 tasks works best.

Hope this helps.

I prefer to use the command line versions for some reason, lol.

pure_hate has said that he only used 68 to speed things up in the vid, he posted in a thread 2 years ago on remote-exploits.org forum that you should use something more sensible.

wow, i'm a little suprised i got the (first) right answer, hehe. anyway glad its solved!

I'd throw a packet trace on the wire (wireshark,) and see if A.) the packets are getting to the router, and B.) if the router ever appears to respond.  That should tell you if the router is doing ANYTHING in response.  If it is, and hydra just doesn't like it, then it's a timeout or something on the application side.  If it's NOT, then you need to see if the router even tries to accept connection attempts, and go from there.

Based on your saying it sure knocks your connection around, it sounds like the packets are definitely hitting it, so it's more than likely you're either hitting the wrong page on the router, or your router isn't configured for http versus https or something, and you're misconfigured, somwehere, either at the router or in hydra...

Very basic overview, but you should be able to get the idea...

you can also try adding another computer to the router through the broadcast port and sniff all packages with wireshark. actually the same option as hayabusa offered, but then you sniff the complete network to check for abnormality.