Find Wireless Router's Password

How to Find Your Wireless Router's Password

2014-01-30 11:54:11 / Posted by Michael Eric to Windows Tips
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You can configure the networking, parental control, and port forwarding settings on your wireless router, with a username and password. These default passwords can be changed to protect the router's settings.

If you've forgotten a router's password – or if you acquired a used router and don't know its password – there's a way to reset the password. Go through these tips on how to find your wireless router's password if you forgot it.

Find Your Password on Your Router's Configuration Webpage

If you have a computer that can connect to the Internet and haven't changed your default username and password, you can find the password by doing the following steps.

• Step 1. Open a web browser.
• Step 2. Enter the IP address for your wireless router into the search bar (for example, 192.168.1.1). Look for your router's default IP address in your router documentation or online.
• Step 3. Enter the user name and password to open your router's configuration webpage. Most router documentation includes the default user name and password.

  

• Step 4. On the configuration webpage, look for a wireless or wireless settings option.

• Step 5. Now, look for a security or wireless encryption setting. The security key (sometimes called a network key, a passphrase, or a network password) should be listed nearby.

  Note: Different router manufactures have different settings pages. If you can't find the wireless security key, contact the router manufacturer (Baffalo, Linksys, Netgear, TRENDnet, Western Digital, ZyXEL, etc).

However, if you once changed your router's default username and password, you have to reset your router to its default factory settings. Keep reading.

Bonus Tips: Reset Your Wireless Router's Password if You Forgot it

Routers come with a button you can press to reset the router to its default factory settings. Luckily, once if you reset the router to its factory settings, you'll be able to know how to find wireless password on your router with its default username and password.

Follow the next steps to achieve it:

• Step 1. Press the "Reset" button and hold it down for about 10 seconds.

  

• Step 2. Release the button. Wait for the router to reboot.

• Step 3. Log in with the default password.

  Note: Find your wireless router's default username and password as described in Part 1.

Apart from this part to know how to access your wireless router's password, you can also get to know how to find your Wi-Fi password when you forgot it by clicking here.

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