Doing Basic Router Housekeeping; Changing The Administrator Password - NETGEAR Wireless Router Setup Manual

This chapter describes how to use some of the maintenance features of your Wireless Router.
These features can be found by clicking on the Maintenance heading in the Main Menu of the
browser interface. Other maintenance features not presented in this chapter can be found accessed
via links in the browser interface of the wireless router to the User Guide and in the help screens.

Changing the Administrator Password

Note: Before changing the wireless router password, follow the instructions under
"Configuration File Management" on page 5-2
forget the new password, you will have to reset the wireless router back to the factory
defaults to be able to log in using the default password of password. This means you will
have to restore all the wireless router configuration settings. If you ever have to reset the
wireless router back to the factory defaults, you can restore your settings from the
backup configuration file.
The default password for the wireless router's Web Configuration Manager is password. Change
this password to a more secure password.
From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select Set
Password to bring up the menu shown below.
Figure 5-1: Set Password menu

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to save your configuration settings. If you
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