Do not have the password for my in home wireless network. How do I re-set it?

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I hired someone to hook up my computer, blue-ray player and cell phone to a new wireless router I bought a couple years ago. He hooked it up, but wrote down the wrong password, I have not been able to add anything to the network since then and want to add a different cell phone and a roku player. How do I re-set the password? And then will it remember the items already on the network?

plutonic · Accepted Answer

You have to reset the router. There is a reset button on the back and you hold it in for about 30 seconds. This resets the router to the default (factory) state. You then have to set up your network again. Assuming Linksys, you open your brower and type in 192.168.1.1 . That will bring you to the router's settings page. You log in with "admin" for admin and "password" (or nothing) for password. You then are able to access all of the router's settings. The first thing you should do is change the user name and password. You can then change the router's name (the SSID or the name that will show up when you list the available connections). Lastly, you should set up the encryption on the Security tab. You should choose some version of WPA as that is way more secure than the WEP variety.

PS If you have a different brand of router, go to their website to find out the address you have to type into the browser as well as the default user name and password.

Anonymous · Answer

Not familiar with that particular brand, so can't cookbook it for you. If you have the doc that came with it, I'm sure it will tell you. You need to login to the router through a web browser. Then you find the wireless security area and set either a wep key or a wpa passcode. Then you need to enter the key or code on your computer when you connect to the router. There are a lot of similar questions and answers on yahoo and elsewhere. What you have to find out is what address you use to login to your router, and what the default userid and password to login are.

Anonymous · Answer

Are you absolutely certain you've contacted the correct SSiD?
And;
There are actually 2 passwords;
One to 'get on the Internet', and one that is the router Administrators Password.

If you had a competent person do this work those things should have been made perfectly luminous to you.
He/she should have also written down all the new values that were used in setting up the LAN.
I would contact that person and ask what the H is going on.

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Do not have the password for my in home wireless network. How do I re-set it?

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