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CentralMass

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2. What type of router (make and model) do you have..
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 01:17 PM
Sep 2017

If you don't have your documention on it. Google changing the password on my "your routers brand" .

Your router serves up a webpage accessible on your wireless network. Many use the local ip address 192.168.1.1 .odds are that if you enter that in a browser windoe it will tske you to your routers login page.

Once you find the right address for your router you enter the adress into a browser window and it takes you to a login screen. The router has a default user name (which might be "admin" or nothing (blank) and password if you have never changed them. The document for your model will have this info and tell you how to changr both the usename and password. Once you change them be sure to write them down and save it someplace safe. The documment will also tell yiu how to change the ssid of your router from the default thst is usually on the label on the router to something catchy like "Abraham Linksys"

Here is a link for a netgear router.

https://kb.netgear.com/23438/Smart-Wizard-How-to-change-your-NETGEAR-router-WiFi-password-or-network-name-SSID-using-Smart-Wizard

A generic article for Linksys.routers.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/reset-username-password-linksys-wireless-router-54174.html


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Router security [View all] bucolic_frolic Sep 2017 OP
Your ISP has instructions on how to reset your pasword mikeysnot Sep 2017 #1
What type of router (make and model) do you have.. CentralMass Sep 2017 #2
It's a D-Link 2750B bucolic_frolic Sep 2017 #4
Here is the link.. CentralMass Sep 2017 #5
They all come with default User & PW's out of the box. lpbk2713 Sep 2017 #3
Be aware canetoad Sep 2017 #6
everyone here is talking about the router admin password lapfog_1 Sep 2017 #7
He caught the 'admin' network ID, and read password off the bottom of the router on a sticker bucolic_frolic Sep 2017 #8
Hard Drive crash bucolic_frolic Oct 2017 #9
Success bucolic_frolic Oct 2017 #10
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